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in ; as well as to every other rich inclofed grafs- 

 land country ; and confequently may not be 

 unfit for the paddocks of gentlemen in this or 

 any other country ; nor, perhaps, altogether 

 improper for the £^-Norfolk farmers, who 

 keep only a few Iheep, for the purpofes above- 

 mentioned. But, taken in a general light, as 

 a breed for the county at large, they appear to 

 me to be wholly unfit. — I believe they will not 

 live upon the heaths, and open, extenfive, un- 

 produdive Iheep-walks of Weft-Norfolk, {o 

 well as the prefent breed of heath -Iheep of that 

 country : / know they will not ftand the fold fo 

 well, nor travel fo well to the London market, 

 nor fell for fo much by the pound when they 

 arrive there, as will the prefent breed of Nor- 

 folk fheep in general ; which, aukward in form 

 as they undoubtedly are at prefent, appear to 

 me, from a knowledge of different breeds, to 

 be better adapted to the foil, fituation and 

 fyftemof management of the county at large, 

 than any other breed at prefent exiiling in the 

 Ifland. 



The general economy or fyftem of ma- 

 nagement of Iheep in this country is mentioned 

 in MiN. 122, on the Iheep -Ihow of Cawfton; 



in 



