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obtained. It Is well known to what perfec- 

 tion particular kinds of fheep and cattle, which 

 in their judgment were preferable to every o- 

 ther, have been brought by Meffrs Bakewell 

 and CuUey. In Galloway, polled cattle pre- 

 vail, to the exclulion of other breeds, becaufe 

 in that country there is a ftrong prediled:ion in 

 their favour. By attention, Mr Farquharfou 

 of Invercauld, in the very heights of Aberdeen- 

 fhire, has obtained, without any foreign affift- 

 ance, a breed of cattle, producing the richeft 

 milk of any in Great Britain ; and if the inha- 

 bitants of the Shetland, of the Orkney , and of 

 the Weftern Iflands, will m;ike a point of it, 

 there is no doubt, that by breeding always 

 from the beft rams and ewes, and gradually 

 extirpating the inferior fpecies, the beft breed 

 of Shetland Iheep may be multiplied with ama- 

 zing rapidity. The experiments made by M, 

 Le Blanc, and the celerity and fuccefs with 

 which he has propagated the Spanifh breed of 

 fheep in France (an account of which will be 

 found in the Appendix), fully juftify this af- 

 fertion. 



"2. In Shetland, as la other places, improve- 

 ments are attempted with the beft intentions, 

 which often turn out to be the reverfe. Thus, 

 y/ith a view of mending the Shetland breed, 



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