r THE REPORT, &c. 



not be lefs than 100,000, and are probably 

 more. Their fleeces, which, at an average, do 

 not produce above a pound and a half of wool 

 each, is not worth at prefent above fix pence 

 per pound, or L.3250 in all ; whereas the fineft 

 wool might fetch at leaft five fliillings per 

 pound ; and confequently the fleeces of the 

 fame number of fheep, if they yielded nothing" 

 but fine wool, might be valued at L. 32,500, or 

 ten times the above fum. If the fame breed were 

 reared in the Hebrides, and in the Orkney 

 Iflands (where they would thrive equally well), 

 wool might be produced in thofe negleded 

 parts of Great Britain to the value of perhaps 

 half a million : In procefs of time, alfo, the fame 

 fpecies might be extended to other diftridts 

 of Great Britain. Your Committee, however, 

 think it proper to remark, that attention to the 

 finenefs of the wool muft always diminifh in 

 proportion as the carcafe becomes valuable ; 

 and, confequently, that fine-wool'd fheep are 

 more likely to be preferved in their higheft flate 

 pf perfedion, in remote parts of the country, 

 than in the neighbourhood of the metropolis *. 



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* In Dr Anderfcn's opinion, the Northern and Weflern 

 Iflands of Scotland are peculiarly well calculated for rearing ^iqe- 

 yvool'd fliecp : For, in the firft T:lacc, the climate is favourable 



