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For the Agricultural Magazine. GN: THE DIVFERENT KINDS AND PROPERTIES OF WOOL,&c. COMMUNICATED BY MR. COLLINS, OF DEVIZES, TO THE BATH AND WEST OF. ENGLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY“

SURRY— DANSTED Downs; short, thick, close; I only saw it on the sheep’s back. Common heath; longer, yet soft, coarser, much filth or hoar. Sand heath; fine, sìilky, full of white and black sand.

SussEX.— Doron: South Down; short, thick, inclined to harshness. Underhill; the old sheep kept one winter of the downs, and shorn in the summer, éofter, but not. s0 fine. Weald; fallmg wool, mostly from the Underhill wool, deep combing,&c.

HaNTs.—Forest; small, ne, filthy, sandy. Down; lar- ger, harsher. Broken up; larger and harsher still, does not recover in a man's age.

DoRrsET.— Down; coarse and deep. LForest or Common; fine, filthy, sandy,

WiLrTs.—Down; fine, soft, clean, white, before the break- ing up s0 much down, and the introduction of the large breed; now clean, white, coarse, not soft. Inclosure; mostly fatting or to be put on fatting.

SoMERsSET— Jfnclosed; a deepish thin wool, yellowish, soft, and sìlky. North part; thicker, shorter, not s0 fine, but good.

GLoUCcESTERSHIRE.—South part; large, deep, combing, strong, whitisb, rather coars@e. North part; more on the tatiing.

MoNMOUTHSHIRE.— Forest or Common; small, yellowish, ne healthy, and mossy. JTnclosed; small, bat larger, yel- lowish, fine, clean, thick matted, not trinded.

H EREFORDSHIRE.—Ryc-Land; thin, hungry, harsh, ont of proof, worse and worse; in the œorking or sand ground apt to be filled with the beards of the rye. Tnclosure; thick, yel- lowish, the finest wool in general in the kinedom, but much worse by mixture. Forest or Common; small, soft, sìlky, and filthy.

SEROPSHIRE.—Forest or Common; small, yellowish, soft, silky, filthy, most times thick haired,(or cat’s hair), yellowish.

RADNORSHIRE,—Forest or Common; small, whitish, thick- er, harder, filthy, and some sandy.

BERKsS0IRE.—Deep, strong combing wool.

IsLE oF W1G6uT.—Down Wool, is rather finer tban the Wilts. Inclosures, and large farms, have gradually introduced a larger sort of sheep, and consequently coarser and deeper in the staple, and in the same or greater proportion lessened the guantity of short or clothing wool, whether to the emolument