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.. SHEEP. 
\Ve have been informed, that for sometime 
past your Lordship, and certain a6f ive Mem- 
bers of the Board, have been chiefly occupied 
in an enquiry into the comparative excellence 
of certain varieties of sheep. We cannot . 
help observing, that it appears to us that the 
enquiries and experiments of your Lordship 
and the Board have not been sufficiently ex- 
tended to the several properties of the dif- 
ferent varieties, so that no decided conclu- 
sions can at present be formed of the supe- 
rior excellence of any particular sort. 
The late Mr. Bakewell made some attempts 
at a critical investigation on this subje6l, but 
proceeded only a little way, his attention 
being chiefly directed to one or two points, 
but most particularly to a mixture ol breeds 
which, ill his opinion, possessed, in the great- 
- est degree, a propensity to lay fat upon the 
outside of the carcase at an early age. But 
the public has too much reason to apprehend 
that Mr. Bakewell's experiments were fre- 
quently partial and undecisive, though, never- ^ 
