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wool is difpofed of, cvdi it be a wonder, if the flieep tliat 

 produce it, Ihould not,in thelecircumflances,be profitable, 

 though, in other circumilances, thej might be highly ad- 

 vantageous. 



Fine wool, where it can be obtained at all, in confe- 

 quence of improving the breed, can only be obtained, at 

 firll, in fmall quantities : And in a remote country, where 

 this objedl has been long neglected, it is impoffible to find 

 a wool-forter who could put it into a ft ate fo fitted for 

 the market as to yield nearly the price it ought natu*' 

 rally to have given. If the farmer tries to fend it to 

 market, therefore, it mull to him be a lofing game, 

 though in other circumflances it might liave been high- 

 ly lucrative. 



But can it be fuooofed that the farmer, in thefe cir- 

 cumftances, will ever be able to fend it to a proper mar- 

 ket ? Were it even forted to his hand, Xhe fmall quantity 

 he has to fpare, neither renders it an objedl of fufficient 

 importance to him, nor does he know to whom to 

 confign it, without danger of being impofed on ; nor can 

 it bear the expence of bonds, cockets, freight, and charges*. 

 Were it therefore of ever fo great value, he cannot reap profit 

 from it ; fo that, unlefs meafures fliali be adopted for re^ 

 moving thefe difficulties, the attempting to introduce a 

 breed of fme-woolled fheep into a diitant part of the 

 country, can never be profitable to the individual who 

 begins it, however profitable it might be to individuals, 



* The bonds, freight and charges for a few pounds of wool, as the 

 laws of Britain fland at prefent, if fent by fca, could not be under twenty 

 or thirty fhiOings, and might, in certain circumftanccs, be much more ; 

 bcfidesthe danger of fiibjedting the owner to high forfeitures in cafe cf 

 any accidental breach of forms required by law, which an uninformed 

 farmer, in a remote corner of the countiy, never can be acquainted with. 

 The dread of thofe evils muft therefore prevent him from ever tlunking ot 

 eiigagino; in fucli a dangerous enterprife. 



