OR ROCKY MOUNTAIN SHEEP. 
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Which contains a variety of diflferent kinds, suitable 
to the fabrication of articles very dissimilar in their 
nature, and requires much care to distribute them ia 
their proper order. The fleece under consideration 
18 wholly fine. That on the fore part of the skin 
has all the apparent qualities of fine viool. On the 
back part it very much resembles cotton. The whole 
fleece is much mixed with hairs ; and, on those parts 
where the hairs are long and pendant, there is al- 
most no wool. 
“ The wool, if separated from the hairs, would, 
t think, be adapted for the finest purposes of manu- 
acture. But, in its present state, it could not be so 
applied, though many of the hairs would fly ofiF in the 
manufacturing processes. It is, however, highly pro- 
able, that, by a careful selection of breeding stock, 
fie hairs might, in a great measure, or perhaps entire- 
y, disappear in the course of a very few generations. 
has always been observed, that where sheep have 
^een neglected, their wool has been comparatively 
fiaise ; and wherever they have been properly treat- 
® j and due advantage taken of the accidental finer 
^arieties, the quality of their wool has been propor- 
^mnally ameliorated. Indeed, the improvement in 
® qualities of the wool has uniformly been marked 
keeping pace with the progress of arts and civili- 
Ration. I am therefore of opinion, that the wool of 
m Rocky Mountain sheep would soon become a 
mat acquisition to the manufacturers of this country, 
^6 tlie animal which yields it to experience the 
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