Crass I. GS MH EE Pp. 
or twenty guineas for the ufe of it for a certain 
number of ewes during one feafon. Suffolk alfo 
breeds a very valuable kind. The fleeces of the 
northern parts of this kingdom are inferior in fine- 
nefs to thofe of the fouth; but ftill are of great 
value in different branches of our manufactures. 
The Yorkfbire hills furnith the looms of that county 
with large quantities of wool; and that which ts 
taken from the neck and fhoulders, is ufed (mixed 
with Spanifh wool) in fome of their fineft cloths. 
Wales yields but a coarfe wool; yet it 1s of more 
extenfive ufethan the fineft Segovian fleeces; for 
rich and poor, age and youth, health and infirmities, 
all confefs the univerfal benefit of the flannel ma- 
nufacture. 
The fheep of Ireland vary like thofe of Great- 
Britain. ‘Thofe of the fouth and eaft being large, 
and their flefh rank. Thofe of the north, and the 
mountainous parts fmall, and their flefh {weet. 
The fleeces in the fame manner differ in degrees of 
value. ue 
Scotland breeds a fmall kind, and their fleeces are 
coarfe. Sibbald (after Boerbius) fpeaks of a breed 
in the ifle of Rona, covered with blue wool;. of 
another kind in the ifle of Hirta, larger than the 
biggeft he goat, with tails hanging almoft to the 
ground, and horns as thick, and longer than thofe 
of an ox*.’ He mentions another kind, which is 
clothed 
* Gmelin defcribes an animal he found in S7beria, that in 
many particulars agrees with this; he calls it Rupicapra cornu- 
bus 
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