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arable land, with the view to determining the greatest value 
in wool and mutton of the several breeds. 
The number of breeds of sheep then existing in the country 
was remarkable. Many of them were distinguished by a plentiful 
lack of all the qualities which make for profit, and either died 
out, or entirely changed their character before the invasion of 
the improved breeds. It may be of interest to give a list of 
the varieties of sheep which were to be found when the Eoyal 
Society was established, side by side with the list of present 
breeds as set forth in the Windsor catalogue. 
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Leicester (Dishley) 
Leicester 
Ij in coin 
Border Leicester 
*Teeswater 
Cotswold 
Cotswold 
Lincoln 
Romney Mai'sli 
Oxford Down 
Bampton Notts 
Shropshire 
South Ham Notts 
Southdown 
Irish (polled) 
Hampshire Down 
Southdown 
Suffolk 
• Wiltshire 
Somerset and Dorset Horn 
Dorset 
Kentish, or Romney Marsh 
Portland 
Devon Longwool 
Exmoor 
Ryeland 
Dartmoor 
Dartmoor 
Cornish 
Exmoor 
Ryeland 
Wensleydale 
Dean Forest 
Roscommon 
*Mendip 
Limestone 
♦Norfolk 
Cheviot 
*Cannock Chase 
Black-faced Mountain 
Penistone 
Herdwick 
Shropshu-e Morfe 
Lonk 
Delamere Forest 
Welsh Mountain 
Herdwick 
Cheviot 
Scotch Heath (Black-faced) 
Shetland 
Welsh Mountain 
AVicklow Mountain 
Kerry 
Merino 
Those breeds marked with an asterisk in the first list were 
recorded as becoming extinct at that time, and others, as will 
be noticed, have died out in the interval or have been amal- 
gamated. The list, it should be added, is compiled from Pro- 
fessor Low's standard work on domesticated animals, and from 
the work on British Husbandry published by the Society for the 
