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The fort of wool on fheep feeding in fuch 

 places ought to be very fine •, the finer the bet* 

 ter; the length from one to two inches* It 

 mud be very thick fet : in fact, it cannot be 

 too much fo 5 for the coat preferves the carcafs 

 on the bleak unfheltered mountain. 



It may now be neceffary to remark, that any 

 fort of wool may by attention and manage- 

 ment be raifed on the fame fort of carcafs, and 

 on almoft all foils i but the nature of the foil 

 will moil affuredly in a great degree prevent 

 the wool from attaining the higheft perfection. 

 Salt-water land, or land taken from the fea, 

 will produce more wool and of a much heavier 

 nature, and whiter in colour, than any other 

 land whatever. 



According to the condition of the fheep in 

 refpecl: to flem, land fown with grafs-feeds, or 

 fuch as is liable to rot fheep, generally produces 

 white wool. In the latter inftance, the white- 

 nefs of the wool may be attributed to the great 

 lofs of blood the fheep may fuffer by flowks in 

 the liver. At Claythorpe, during my four years' 

 refidence, I never faw taken out of a fheep fed 

 in that parifh one liver free from flowks and 

 eatable. 



Sheep 



