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thelcss, extended far enouo;h to render his 
endeavours highly profitable to some of his 
disciples. Tliis particular sort is described 
as the New Leicester, and now celebrated by 
certain amateurs as the most perfe6l and 
profitable breed of sheep in the Island, and 
unrivalled also, except by those from the 
South Downs. 
We shall, for the present, .beg leave to 
suggest to your Lordship, that it might 
have been attended with more advantage to 
the public, if the abfive Members of the 
Board had first made a greater progress in 
experiments, and not stopped at a compa- 
rison of the most valuable properties in 
such varieties, as they then appeared, but 
proceeded to judicious seledlionsout of many 
improved varieties, in order to examine the 
efie6l of blending the greatest number of 
the most valuable peculiarities together, and 
concentering them in one breed, which, on 
some soils, may be extremely beneficial; 
still taking care to preserve distindfly the im- 
proved original breeds, which, according to 
our observations on the laws of nature, appear 
