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another, together with the peculiar corre^ 
sponding qualities of wool, flavour. See. &c. 
That from the result of such enquiries a 
firmer basis would have been laid for rational 
subsequent improvement, thati in seledfing 
one or two varieties of sheep, merely from 
a propensity to generate tallow iipou the 
carcase. 
That the Board has san61:ioned, or suffered 
the overheated imagination of its Secretary 
to commit its responsibility upon false and 
theoretical principles,- recommending modes 
of pra6fice to fanners, which, if adopted, 
would be produ6fivG of all the evils he pro- 
poses by his pamphlet on the present ^ Scar- 
city" to remedy. 
Tl -at tire Board has discovered to- the pub- 
lic eitb.er a total want of discrimination upon 
aocricultural subiedts, a total want of consi- 
deration for the public good, or an utter 
contempt for its respedfful opinion, by the 
publication of a large volume of Communi- 
cations of 1799, chiefly setting forth, as new 
