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one of the mod: aftonifhing pieces of bar- 

 barifm that can any where be met with. 



The fleeces of thefe fheep weigh from 

 I lb. to 2, z I , and ^lb. the quality of. 

 the wool very bad; in Cumberland and 

 Wejhnorland i^d. or 4 </. per lb. What 

 a lofs is this to the ftate ? To have whole 

 counties of uncultivated land, without the 

 poiTeffion of thofe rich fleeces which ex- 

 tended fheep - walks convey the idea of. 

 Thefe northern genius's aiiert, that their 

 moors would not do for better iheep : The 

 argument carries an abfurdity in the very- 

 face of it : And thofe who know mod of cat- 

 tle will allow, as an univerfal maxim, that 

 the poorer the foil the better ought the cat- 

 tle to be? not the larger. A good breed of 

 cattle, of any fort, that are not out of fize, 

 will, on the pooreit foils, ftarve the poorer 

 herds. But in this cafe facts have proved 

 what reafon only conjectures. Mr. Culey, 

 of Feriton, near Wooller, has been at the 

 expence of hiring tups of that famous 

 breeder, Mr. Bakeiall, of Ditchky, near 

 LougLborough, in Lcicejlerfoire, by which 

 means he has (I think in two years) fb 

 improved his flock, that all his neighbours 

 are aitonilhed, and fome of them are now 

 hiring tups of him at no trifling expence; 

 convinced, at lad, that no land is too poor 

 tp have a good ilock on it. The profit by 



fheep 



