the Hons Hughes, wool-broker, London, before a ager of 
ang y.t@.of Lords, as far back as 1828, says :— tr 
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On the Influence of the Australian Climate and 
Pastures upon the growth of Wool. 
(IN ABSTRACT.) 
By Axprew Ross, Esq., M.D., M.L.A., Molong. 
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ty to bring forth her inexhaustible treasures to the light of day. 
T must at the outset crave indulgence if I should advance ideas or 
Ypotheses at variance with popular opinion or the expressions of 
Tecognized authorities. 
It has been asserted that a change for the worse hase been 
taking place of late in the character of Australian wool ; and 
a lg of this immense territory under widely varying 
¢ and other conditions. But it seems to me that a very 
3 oe cause—one far more likely to produce the deterioration 
| gag of than either of these—has been almost entirely over- 
in authority asserts that “the characteristics of our ae oo 
Siar a have been ruined by the introduction of Rambouillet, 
ti, Saxon, and other fine-woolled rams, undoing 
: dopant, ctibed to the influence of climate alone ; and this view 
Mr. yy, to have been generally accepted for many years past. 
~ “scription of wools, from that peculiar qua’ 
essed to arise from clitiate on™” BE the climate, I am 
