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Sept. 11. 10thly, That much depends on the care and skill of the shepherd, to meliorate the fleece, augment the size, and correct the form of sheep, even to that of the borns. by pasture, exercise, and above all by the judicious choice of rams, on which much depends; as not alone beauty and other desirable qualities, but deformity and even disease may be propagated and handed down through many generations.

itbly, And lastly, I think one might almost ha zard an opinion from Dr Pallas's information, that by care and attention to the fleece of lambs, of the Tcherkef ian, Boucharian, and Tauric varieties, from their birth to a certain age, a valuable fur trade might be carried on with the north and China, where they are in such high estimation with the rich and great, as a winter dress, even more than our finest Siberian furs, at least in Rufsia and Poland.

Nay even common sheep skins, however coarse, with the care and skill applied to every manufacture in Great Britain, would soon set at defiance all northern competition, and come to the widest market of any article of commerce; as every peasant has an outer winter garb, and most of the superior classes as a morning gown, have at least one sheep skin

man's blister, seems as ittle tempting to fheep, as the joiner's po

lisher.

The 4th is common on the sides of rivulets and lakes in Scotland And as to the 5th, I hope it will never be brought over to Scotland, even for the botanic garde., we are to credit Linnæus, that several fo reign plants have plated themselves over a whole province, the seeds being carried by the winds irom such gardens as they were introduced into for curiosity.

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shube coarser or finer in every northern country, wherein the climate requires furs.

I must own however that I am speaking here, (I mean, with regard to the fabrication of fheep skins with the wool on them in Great Britain,) with little or no knowledge of the subject; as the price of wool, hides &c. there, must determine the expediency of the measure: but if I am to judge of the succefs of one British manufactory by that of another, with pofsibly so per cent against it, on the side of the Russians, my speculation will not appear without some foundation. I allude to the curious article of iron purchased originally from this country, and afterwards sold here manufactured, after paying so many duties and charges on both sides the water, cheaper than the natives can afford it; nay this is not confined to the finer articles, for even British iron railing, is sold in Petersburgh cheaper and neater than it can be made in this city from the original iron, although the Russians have so great a sum in their favour, if all the charges are reckoned up, from the exportation of the rough, to the sale of the ma nufactured iron. Surely I say, judging from such an example of the wonderful effects of industry and fkill, one would think, that sheep skins, the produce of Great Britain, might at least come to this market with the advantage which superior skill and drefsing would give them, over the native manufactories, and that alone, in my opinion, were even the prices equal, would be sufficient to give them such a preference, as would send them through all the north; VOL XVii

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for the durability of a pelice or fhube is a great object to the peasant, and indeed in a lefs degree to all clafses, whilst one half of the fheep skins manufactured in the north, are partly rotten when brought to market, being burnt up, I believe, by a quantity of calcareous earth (probably in a caustic state,) with which every pore is filled. In short, it appears to me that a much better mode of drefsing, at least the common sheep skin furs, might be fallen upon, than what is at present practised in Russia; and that would give such a superiority to the new manufactory, as must be attended with a great sale; for I regard such an improvement, as a real desideratum in that branch of trade.

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To the Lord President of the Court of Session.

MY LORD,

LETTER II.*

Moenal

Ir the interlocutors were reduced to two, upon each point, and all dispute upon counter-claims was precluded, one might think it only remained to decide at once upon the justice of the pleas of the parties, and so terminate the dispute. But the case is quite otherwise; and there are many more bars in the way of a speedy decision.

*Continued from vol. xvi. p. 280.

The party complaining of an interlocutor, must lodge his representation, or present his reclaiming petition, within the space of a fortnight, otherwise the interlocutor becomes final. But there is no such necefsity to lodge answers within any given time.

In the outer-house there is not even an amand imposed; but barely an order given, to lodge answers within ten days or a fortnight;* and I have known the best part of a sefsion lost before such an order could be enforced, by dint of repeated enroll

ments.

A defender has usually nothing to gain by the ifsue of the cause, and when he happens to be respondent, delay ensues; and it sometimes becomes a new question, whether the old one shall proceed or not, besides giving rise to illiberal reflections between the parties, as to the reason of the delay, and so producing ill humour and additional vexation and expence through all the after stages of the

cause.

An amand is by no means an adequate remedy; and the ready compliance with the orders of the inner-house is justly ascribed, not to the amand, but to your Lordship's vigilance, and the fear of your displeasure.

An order to answer, will always be eluded more or lefs, until the respondent is cut off, from even the hope of delay. And therefore I would humbly pro

* One honourable judge only, is in use to annex a penalty to his order, and it generally proves unavailing. It goes to the poor; and the task is invidious to insist upon its being paid.

pose a regulation (like the act of sederunt 26th November 1718,) precluding the pofsibility of receiving answers, unless they are lodged within fourteen days, and so sending the cause to be advised, as it then stands. I know not of any disadvantage that this would be attended with, unless to diminish the emolument of the members of court, whom I formerly mentioned. And as every new regulation to save time has that tendency, it is surely worth while trying to makeup their lofs in some other way. If the endurance of a lawsuit cou'd be shortened one half, the litigants could well afford to pay double the fees of court that they do at present.

It is to be regretted, that in many cases of delay, no such remedy as I have proposed regarding ans wers can well be devised. An order to condescend: to produce a material paper to give in a state of accounts to make up an order of ranking, and other orders of various kinds, often produce astonishing delays, and it is very difficult to propose a remedy: but such orders fhall be the subject of a future let ter. I am &c. LENTULUS.

ON VARIOUS WAYS OF MAKING MONEY,

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I AM an old domine, Mr Editor, who have toiled hard for fourteen hours a day, during forty years

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