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‘Some graziers in the Isle of Sheppey, conceived that they could improve their sheep by large Lincolnshire rams, the pro- duce of which, however, was much in- ferior in the shape of the carcase, and the quality of the wool; and their flocks were greatly injured by this attempt to improve them.’

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