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statement,* for Livingston, so familiar with the Eam- 

 bouillet flock, accepts it as such, and subjoins the fol- 

 lowing remarks: "It is proper to observe that the 

 French pound is almost one-twelfth heavier than the 

 English ; bnt, at the same time, to note that from the 

 general custom of folding the sheep in France, of feed- 

 ing them in fallows, and wintering them in houses, 

 they are very dirty, f and their fleeces, of course, pro- 

 portionablv heavier ; the loss in washing is about sixty 

 per cent., so that the average weight of the ram's 

 fleece would be, when washed and scoured, about six 

 American pounds, exclusive of tags and belly wool." 



" Scouring," even as Mr. Livingston uses the word,^: 

 is a very different process from brook-washing ; and 

 the belly wool, and clean tags, which are done up 

 with the fleece in this country, would, I think, equal 

 the weight acquired from additional yolkiness and 

 dirtiness; so I infer that to place these unwashed 

 French fleeces on an equality, in respect to cleanli- 



* The supposed statement of Lasteyrie. under examination, may 1 

 a misprint Having suffered my wool library to become scattered. I 

 cannot verify the accuracy of the quotation from the original. I copy 

 it from my ' ; Sheep Husbandry in the South," and on turning to 

 Youatt, I find he gives the same figures. 



I wilt in this connection, add that, for the reason already given. I 

 shall generally, in this paper, be under the necessity of re-quoting for- 

 eign authors from the work of mine alluded to. It is possible that 

 occasional misprints have crept into succeeding editions of that work. 



f A sheep, housed nights, and from storms, retains an additional 

 amount of the soluble yolk in its fleece, which would far outweigh the 

 mere "dirt" which adheres to the fleece. 



$ I do not apprehend that Mr. Livingston here refers to a process 

 as thorough as that now employed by manufacturers in cleansing 

 wool: but, judging from his remarks on other occasions. I infer that 

 he meant something about equivalent to the Spanish mode of washing, 

 Inscribed in a previous note. 



