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But to return to fheep. In one refped they 

 partake of the nature of oxen: — I mean that 

 the fmall breed is finer in flefh than the large. 

 A fheep of the Welfh breed, which fhall not 

 weigh more than fix pounds per quarter, will 

 prove of fuperior grain to a Tees-water of fix- 

 ry pounds per quarter. In like manner, a 

 Scotch bullock of twenty (tone will be finer 

 flefh than one of the Durham or Holdernefs 

 breed of one hundred and twenty flone: and 

 this rule will hold good in mod animals ufed 

 by us as food. 



Having faid fo much on flefh, we fhall now 

 fpeak of the wool, which undoubtedly is finefb 

 on the fmalleft kind of fheep. But the fine- 

 nefs of the wool is not the certain confequence 

 of a diminutive carcafe: the food is the prim- 

 ary caufe. I have witnefled a fheep from Spain 

 put upon the rich land in Lincolnfhire near 

 Boflon ; and in two years this very fheep, the 

 fined to be procured in Spain, clipped a very 

 unufeful kind of fleece, with more hair than 

 wool. The rich land here referred to is more 

 adapted to the growth of the combing fort of 

 wool, which is the mod: valuable of all, as it 

 yields by far the greater! quantity. From four 



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