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profit, is there required to be of a fort fit for 

 combing, and ought to be as nearly as pofiible 

 of one length and hair, of an open mellow na- 

 ture, about ten inches long, even at the top, 

 fo as to have little or no tag; as the tag is not 

 only wade, but expenfive in cutting off. The 

 food of fheep in thefe marfhes is furprifingly 

 apt to promote the growth of the above 

 fort of wool •, and produces it fafter than any- 

 other kind of land in England. 



When the large fheep feed upon barren foils 

 of a very cold nature, their wool is fettered to- 

 gether and grows into what are called cots, and 

 decreafes to half the value of what it would 

 have been in a good rich pafture. 



For poor foils, fomething better than moors 

 or mountains, the bed fort of fheep is the 

 DifliJey. On fuch foil their wool will be fhor- 

 ter and weigh lefs; which is occafioned by fuf- 

 fering hardfhips, and by the want of rich food. 

 The pafture not being fufficient to fatten them; 

 they may be fed with turnips and feeds, which, 

 when good, are excellent for fheep, and oaufe 

 them to produce more wool. 



Having defcribed the fort of wool mod pro- 

 per for very good, and for indifferent land, I 

 (hail now (hew what is molt proper for moun- 

 tains oi: heaths. The 





