1303.] On the different Kinds and Propertics of Wool. 171

of the community at large, or not, is a question; my decision is on the negative side.

The Whin of the Day.—The introduction of Mr. Bake- well’s breed, has answered many people's ends, whose interest it was that this whim should take place and be continued, but of a woeful experiment to many who pursued this whim; from the introduction of the goggles, a disease not known to our un- wise forefathers, but spread far and wide by their wiser chil- dren; besides thwarting the universal disposer of all creatures, who hath placed the smaller cattle, vegetables,&c. on the hills, and the larger in plains and low lands; and the folly of putting such large rams to such small ewes, 1s double, s0me having lost the greater part of their flock thereby. The gog- goles have nearly overthrown the’ whim of such large shéep, introduced at first by some noblemen, or men who had large estates in their hands, and vied with each other who should produce the largest and fattest cattle; which has been an astonishing injury to the community, viz. a small or middling family could dispense with a leg of mutton of 5 or 6 lbs. but cannot on any account buy one of- 14 or 15 lbs. besides the strong, nauseous, cadaverous taste of the latter, compared with the fine flavour of the former.

Terms of art if not well defined, will leave the reader in the dark, or at least liable to err.

WooL—an uniform hair, protruded through the skin of an animal from a root, and which does not fall off without some violence or disease in the animal.

FüR-—is a hair of a capillary nature, and usually such crea- tures have two coats a summer and a winter one; sometimes these are mixed, which is an inconceivable damage to the medley cloths and seems to call for a remedy if possible.

FLEECE,—the wool shorn off one sheep, and wound up to- gether by a band twisted out of some parts of it.

Top,—in the fairs at Hereford,&c, the same thing, though sometimes through avarice the fleece is broken into several parts, and every one wound up 1s called a top, and the seller can suit himseltf as the sum of the scale, in trinded wool, which is wound up as close as possìble in the form of skittle pins, each is called a top. A pack, in the country 244 lbs. when fit tor use in London, 242 lbs. In Romney Marsh, and Bssex, part of Surry, Sussex, and Hants, the wool cloth is hiüled, then weighed, deducting 4 Ibs. in every twelve score, as customary allowance to the buyer. In Sussex the todd 32: Ibs. in Hants, SLIbS: unNeht, or--301 lbs. turning. Reading fair 29 lbs. The standard weight for clean wool fit for use 30è Ibs. the standard todd 28 lbs. the weight in Wilts, 21 lbs. The stone at Hereford,&c. 127 lbs. much altercation between the buyer and seller about the half pound; the wool-stapler allows it on