Natural iiistort. 
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clothiers are obliged to inirchale it at a very 
great price, in order to enable them to nia- 
nufaLd;iirc fome of their cflimable articles. 
The great utility of fliecp to Great-Bntain 
may be feen by the following moderate cal- • 
eolation of hccce-wool annually produced by 
their growth. 
According to the calculation of Young, in 
h\^ Sv: months tour, there are ,.(. 66 , 53 2 packs 
of wool nianufaflurcd in Great-Britain and 
Ireland, and 285,000 packs exported unma- 
nufaftured. The value of which, eftimated 
at an average of £.■]. per pack, amounts to 
£. 5,260,724.. The quantity manufaclurcd 
is fuppofed to amount to the fum of ^'.T .2, 
4.34,855, Jmnnally, which is circulated a- 
mongll induftrious artil’ans. As the whole 
value of Britifli manufadlure, at the above 
period of calculation, was faid net to exceed 
;£.44, 350,529, this article alone maybccon- 
hdered as equal in value to one third of all 
the reft of their produce and mauufaeftures. 
Cut what evinces ftill more the value of ftcep 
to Great-Britain and her depcndcuclcs, is, 
that the wool affords employment to 1.576, 
13.1., out of 4,250, 43 people, wiiich arc 
fuppofed to be the number of the labcriotis 
part. 
Broad-tailed fheep are found in Tr.rtary, 
Arabia, Perlia, Barbary, Syria and Isgypt. 
Such is the weight of wool on their tails, 
that Pennant fays, femg have been known to 
weigh fifty pounds; to prefi.: vc v, hicii from 
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