74 Exhibition of Merino Lambs. 



the Carse of Gourie, which is reported to grow 

 crop after crop without manure. 



This district of Scotland, which a few years 

 ago imported grain, now exports it to a consi- 

 derable amount. 



The show of Galloway cattle was said to be a 

 good one ; there were of other kinds, and these 

 met with less admiration than that to which I 

 thought them fairly entitled. 



Sir William Maxwell exhibited some very 

 good merino lambs, in high perfection. 



I have had little worthy of comment to ob- 

 serve on the sheep of the country; their general 

 similitude of character made me abstain from 

 any remarks : but as Sir William Maxwell's 

 merinos have forced on my mind the great 

 importance of cultivating fine woolled foreign 

 sheep, or improving the fleeces of our own, I 

 cannot help indulging in a few observations, 

 which, by possibility, may have the recommen- 

 dation of novelty. Those black-faced, black- 

 legged wild animals, which abound in the 

 Highlands, composed the principal number of 

 those which we have seen in this district of 



