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in the fame weight, much more lean and much 

 more bone than in a Difhley fheep. : A la- 

 bourer or hard-working man may prefer a joint 

 of lean rank Lincolnfhire mutton to the Difh- 

 ley, that will cut from five to fix inches deep 

 of firm fat ; but he will not find an equal 

 weight of it fatisfy fo many hungry chil- 

 dren as the Difhley fat mutton* Wichout 

 doubt there exifts a very confiderable difference 

 amongft that fpecies we term Lincolnfhire 

 fheep. Some of them, when driven the dis- 

 tance of one hundred miles from their native 

 paflures, appear to be little better than car- 

 rion : but if thofe fheep, when intended to 

 be kept until they were three years or three 

 and a half old, or at lead till they were three 

 times clipped, had a little more attention be- 

 llowed with judgment upon them, they would 

 be found to produce more wool, and retain 

 their flefh much better. 



The Wiltfhire fheep and the Hertfordfhire 

 fheep I do not treat of, being no judge of 

 them. They are chiefly for folding : and the 

 folding of fheep I do not like; it is robbing 

 Peter to pay Paul, j 



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