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into this country, it waftes again from 3 to 4 lbs. per 
: {core in fcouring. 
The wool you fent us to manufa@ture was 60 Ibs. 
in the greafe. It was forted into three parcels of 
different qualities. Ofthe firft quality, when fcoured, 
there remained 23 lbs.; of the fecond, 14 lbs; and 
of the third, 2]bs; altogether 39 lbs. The wafte 
was, confequently, fomewhat more than one-third of 
the whole. This wool fcoured exceedingly well; 
and when dyed blue, the beft ran to 21 fkains, or 
6780 yards to the pound, and made 14 yards of 
cloth; the fecond ran to 18 fkains, or 5770 yards 
per lb. and made 7 yards of cloth. The remaining 
piece (2 lbs.) was fet apart for lift; it might be worth 
about 6d. per lb. You will obferve, that the cloth 
made from this wool does not prove in milling fo 
well as that made from the beft Spanifh wool, by one 
yard in twenty. Had we received a larger quantity of 
the wool, we fhould have made more forts of it; of 
courfe, the beft fort of cloth would, in this cafe, have 
been finer, and would have proved better in milling. 
We would recommend, in future, to thofe gentle- 
men who keep thefe kinds of fheep, to have them 
well wafhed before fhearing. In that cafe, we fhould 
fuppofe that the wool would be worth from 2s. to 
as. 3d. per lb.* 
* This price is to be confidered as proper to periods when the 
price of Spanifh wool is moderate—as before the prefent war.—Ep. 
VOL. Ix. AA Any 
