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livool, that no other nation in Europe can pretend to equal *. 

 Their remote fituation, too, renders the cukivation of nvooi 

 of greater importance to them than to the natives of other 

 parts of Bi-itain, becaufe the carcafe there muft always be of 

 finaller proportional value. 



It were vain, however, to expe£l that ever the natives 

 can be taught to make the proper ufes of thefe fingular na- 

 tional advantages, unlefs care fhall be taken to open among 

 them convenient markets for their wool, in centrical and 

 acceffible places, where the different wool-growers could 

 meet with a variety of rival merchants, who, by their com- 

 petition, might bring every fpecies of wool to its fair intrin- 

 lic value, and thus enable the wool-growers to judge with 

 precifion which kind it was moft their intereft to rear. This 

 therefore, as an obJ€£l of the firft importance, ought to be 

 kept fteadily in view by thofe who wifli to promote the im- 

 provement of the Highlands of Scotland, and to excite a fpi- 

 rit of induftry among its people. 



At the prefent moment they poflefs wool of great value, 

 for which no adequate price can be drawn ; it is therefore 

 often applied to ufes that wool of a very inferior quality 

 might anfwer, and of courfe it may be lefs profitable to the 

 grower than wool of a quality greatly inferior. The breeds 

 of fhecp, therefore, which ought to be valuable chiefly on 

 account of their wool, are neglefted, and others that are 

 really of much inferior value, but which are accidentally from 

 this caufe at prefent more profitable, are preferred in 

 their ftead. 



To remove thefe evils, it appears to me, that one of the 

 firft enterprizes of this Society ought to be, to eftablifh 

 fome large annual fairs in thofe parts. "Wool is an article 

 there of fuch importance, and it is to be now had on thefe 

 coafts in fuch quantities, and at fo low a price, as to be 

 an object fufficient to bring monied men from a diftance 



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* See Appendix, No. IV. 



