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burgh for about ^d. per pair, to be purchafed, 

 and decompofed^ or reduced again to wool. The 

 wool, after being carded, w^as delivered to Mr 

 Izet the hatter, who very obligingly agreed to 

 try how far it might anfwer for the manufac- 

 ture of hats, both by itfelf, and with a mixture 

 of other wool. The ftrength of the woolj it is 

 evident, muft have been much injured by being 

 fpun and knit, and afterwards untwifted and 

 decompofed ; yet the wool was found capable 

 of being made into hats, and there is reafon to 

 believe that the raw material was more valuable 

 than the ftockings when manufactured. 



Lajlly^ The Committee are decidedly of opi- 

 nion, that the fined breed of Shetland fheep 

 might be extended to the other iflands of Scot- 

 land, and in procefs of time to other diftriCls 

 of Great Britain. On this head, they beg leave 

 to refer to a very ingenious paper drawn up by 

 Dr Anderfon, which will be found in the fecond 

 number of the Appendix to this Report. 



In another paper alfo (fee Appendix, No. III.) 

 the Doctor has drawn up a plan for eftabliihing 

 wool markets, in order to raife the value of that 

 article by a competition of buyers; w^hich would 

 probably prove an efFe£lual means of encoura- 

 ging the production of fine wool in Shetland, 

 and in other p?ats of Scotland, were proper at- 



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