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T.vhat Is usually imported from Spain. I am told that the T. 

 wool, bag No. 17, is entitled to the same comparative pre- 

 ference. 



VI. This wool is more profitable in the manufacture thau 

 the best Spanish. 



It requires 60 lb. of good Spanish wool, in the imported 

 state, to make thirty yards of broad cloth, dyed in the wool 

 of the proper substance. These fiolb. waste, in scourii*g, 

 to 52 lb. Hence it follows, that 52lb. of scoured Spanish 

 wool are necessary to make thirty yards of good wool-dyed 

 broad-cloth. The R. wool of the British cloth. No. 14, 

 having been 44 lb. should therefore have made about 254 

 yards ; whereas, in fact, it made 2G|- yards ; and it is asserted 

 by the manufacturer, that if it had not deceived him as to its 

 capacity of milling, to which is owing its uncommon 

 strength, it would have reached in length one yard and a 

 half niore of cloth of the usual substance. This account 

 corresponds with that of Mr. Waldron's prize cloth from my 

 wool in the year I SOL'. Tiie R. wool dyed and picked blue 

 Was 47 lb. which niia'ht probably have been 48 lb. when only 

 SK;oured. Now 48 lb. of scoured Spanish wool should make 

 about 27^- yards of broad-cloth; whereas the same quantity 

 of my wool, in this instance, produced 30-^ yards of cloth ; 

 which the draper, even at that time, sold for 23s. a yard. 



From these and many other similar facts which I could 

 adduce, I think myself authorized to infer, that this wool 

 wastes less in the manufacture, and is, therefore, weight 

 for weight, more valuable, than imported Spanish wool. 



For this difference very satisfactory reasons might be 

 given ; but 1 shall not take up the society's time with 

 enumerating them. It is sufficient for mc to state, and, I 

 think, to have proved the fact. 



I have spoken above as to the superior softness and flexi- 

 bility of this wool. It is probable that several gentlemen 

 arc here present, who, in manufacturing it, have found even 

 the coarser samples to make nuich finer cloth than their ap- 

 pearance in tlic wool promised. Further evidence as to this 

 point will be adduced under the ne.xt proposition. 



As to its capacity of felting, I need go no further for proof 

 (^ '\ than 



