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dropped almost naked. What difference there is in thenumbers that may be kept on any given space of land, doesnot appear to have been fairly determined, and may proba-bly depend upon the higher grounds being more or less ac-cessible in winter, supposing the weight of the carcase ofeach breed to be nearly the same. The difference in the va-?lue of the wool is, however, so much in favour of the Che-viots, as to have introduced them into many very high ex-posed situations, the price of their wool being nearly threetimes that of the blackfaced; and this general preferencewould seem to prove, that a Cheviot stock is the most pro-fitable, unless in very mountainous and heathy districts,where no provision of hay or turnips can be secured for thewinter season.

SECT. IV.

THE LEICESTER OR DISHLEY BREED.

It is well known that this excellent variety was obtained bythe skilful exertions of the late Mr Robert Bakewell ofDishley, from whose stock it has spread over all the well cul-tivated districts of the island. The late Messrs Gulleys in-troduced these sheep into Northumberland many years ago,from whence they soon passed into the border counties ofScotland , Berwick and Roxburgh, where they have beenlong established on almost every arable farm. In most otherc ounties they are also to be found in small flocks, in a lessor greater degree of purity; and wherever convertible husban-dry is practised in a skilful and systematic manner, they areconsidered as an indispensable part of the live-stock of everyfaun. They are exceedingly well adapted to arable land,fi°m their being easily' confined, maturing at an early