T T H E 



DIRECTORS OF the HIGHLAND 

 SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND, 



THE 



REPORT of the Committee to 

 whom the fubjeft of Shetland 

 Wool was referred. 



JLN the inveftigatlon of this important fubje(5l, 

 your Committee was favoured with the attend- 

 ance of Arthur Nicolfon, Efq. younger of Loch- 

 end, in Shetland ; of the Rev. Mr Morifon, 

 minifter of Deking in Shetland ; and of Dr 

 Anderfon of Cotfield, near Edinburgh, whofe 

 zealous and public fpirited attention to the im- 

 provement of the Britifh fifheries, and to other 

 points connected with the profperity of this 

 country, is well known to the Society. 



It appears to your Committee, from the evi- 

 dence of thefe gentlemen, that the fubjedt recom- 

 mended to their enquiry is one of the moft im- 

 portant that could poffibly be brought under the 

 confideration of the Highland Society. The 

 n.umber of fheep in Shetland, it is believed, can- 



A not 



