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ing in a fet of accurate experiments, we may, hj due at- 

 tention, be enabled in time to rear, not only finer wool 

 than is to be obtained from any other country, but may 

 alfo be able to conjoin with it every other valuable pe- 

 culiarity, fach as, clofenefs of fleece, a good mould of car- 

 cafe, hardinefs, a capability of being eafily fattened, largc- 

 nefs of fize, and every other valuable quality, adapted to 

 every peculia,rity of fituation in the iflands. 



Such are the important objects that may be eiTe<^ed by 

 a continued attention to the fubjetl that now claims the 

 deliberations of the Gentlemen of this Society. 



POSTSCRIPT. 



As fome arguments of importance occurred in the 

 courfe of the deliberations of the Society on this fub- 

 jeft, it is proper they fhould be here mentioned, with the 

 anfwers. 



It was juilly obferved, that profit is, and ever muil be 

 the objeft of the farmer's attention in choofing a kind of 

 flieep to breed from ; and that general experience is per- 

 haps a better proof of that profit than any other criterion 

 that could be adopted. But fince experience has proved 

 that the breed of coarfe-woolled fheep has been gradually 

 making encroachments on the fine-woolled fort, fo as at 

 lafl to banilh them entirel}' from the belt part of this 

 ifland ; this fcems to afford a clear and convincing 

 proof, that it has been found univerfally to be more pro- 

 fitable to rear the coarfe-woolled fheep than the others ; 

 and as this inconvenience inay be expected to be felt in 

 future as well as in times pait, it fecms to be a vain at- 

 tempt to endeavour to retrieve that fine-woolled breed. 



To this it may be anfwered, that though the argu- 

 ment be fair and plaufible, the conclufion cannot, in this 

 cafe, be admitted as jufl. Ey the fame mode of reafon- 



