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land, is fuppofed to be about five millions fterling ; and, 

 when manufactured conjointly with the Spanifh wool im- 

 ported, amounting to about fix hundred thoufand pounds, 



muft be above twenty millions. 



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Like other ruminating animals, the Sheep wants the 

 upper fore teeth : It has eight in the lower jaw ; two of 

 which drop out, and are replaced at two years old ; four 

 of them are renewed at three years, and the remainder 

 at the age of four. 



The Ewe produces one or two lambs at a time, and 

 fometimes, though rarely, three or four. She bears her 

 young five months, and brings forth in the fpring*. — - 

 The Ram lives to the age of about fifteen years, and be- 

 gins to procreate at one. When caftrated, they are call- 

 ed Wedders. They then grow fooner fat \ and the flefti 

 becomes finer and better flavoured. 



There is hardly any part of this animal that is not fer- 

 viceable to man : Of the fleece we make our cloaths 5 the 

 fkin produces leather, of which are made gloves, parch- 

 ment, and covers for books ; the entrails are formed into 

 firings for fiddles and other mufical inftruments, likewife 

 coverings for whips; its milk affords both butter and 

 cheefe; and its flefh is a delicate and wholefome food. 



The following remarks, taken from Mr Cully's " Ob- 

 fervations on Live Stock," will not be unacceptable to 



* An Ewe of the fmall black- faced Scotch breed, produced 

 two ewe lambs before fhe had compleated her firtt year; and be- 

 fore the end of the fecond year, thefe two produced each of them 

 two lambs alfo. It is a remarkable circumftance, that this great 

 increafe took place in the coldeft and moft mountainous part of 

 Northumberland ; and it is further neceflary to obferve, that this 

 breed of Sheep feldom produces more than one Lamb at a time 3 

 and that not till they are two years of age. 



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