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than the blue cloth, No. 14, in which, as hath been before 

 observed under this head, it turned olit greater than was 

 justified by the common experience of Spanish wool. 



VII. The lambs' wool of the Merino-Ryeland breed 

 will make finer cloth than the best of that of the pure Me- 

 rino breed. 



In order to demonstrate this, I beg leave to exhibit three 

 pifces of lambs' wool broad-cloth. 



The black, No. 18, is the produce of my lambs of 1801, 

 descended from the Spanish ram. No. 1. 



The lighter blue, No. 19, dyed in the piece, from the 

 lambs of 1803, got by pure Spanish rams. 



The darker blue. No. 20, from the lambs of the present 

 year, most of which were got by the Merino-Ryeland ram. 

 No. 4. 



The superior firmness of the cloth. No. 20, to that of 

 No. 19, is a convincing proof of the truth of the second 

 proposition. At the same time, I beg leave to ask whether 

 any gentleman here present has ever seen any cloth from 

 imported Spanish lambs' wool, equal to this in fineness and 

 softness. Thus is established the truth not only of this 7th 

 pi-oposition, but also of the 6th. 



I do not however exhibit this cloth as the best which may 

 be produced from the lambs of this cross. The wool was 

 not uniformly good. Tt was of all degrees of fineness from 

 that of specimen No. 21, to that of specimen No. 22. 



Hereafter I shall assign the reason of this inequality, which 

 it cannot be doubted that I shall be able to correct, should 

 it be thought necessary. 



VIII. Should long wool of this degree of fineness be 

 wanted for shawls, or any manufactures which cannot be 

 perfected with our common coarse long wools, the ram's 

 fleece of the cross breed, which is exhibited No. 23, will 

 prove that this can be effected by allowing the fleece to re- 

 main on the animal unshorn for two years. 



I beg leave here to trouble the society with a few remarks. 

 I have said that the cloths from sheep's and lambs' wool, 

 now cxliibited, good as they certainly are, are still not the 

 best which are to be obtained from my flock. It will be 



reasonable 



