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for President Jefferson. Three perished on the pas- 

 sage, but the other arrived safely, and lived to effect a 

 vast deal of good.* 



Later, the same year, Mr. Seth Adams, of Zanes- 

 ville, Ohio, imported a pair of Spanish sheep which 

 had been carried into France. They arrived in Bos- 

 ton in October, and received the premium of the 

 Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, the 

 following year.f 



In 1802, Mr. Livingston, the American Minister in 

 France, sent home two pairs of Merinos to his estate 

 on the Hudson. They were purchased from the 

 French National flock, at the Veterinary school, at 

 Chalons. They cost him, delivered at Paris, five miles 

 distant, 1,200 francs, and about twice that sum deliv- 

 ered at his farm, though the patriotic captain of the 

 vessel refused to take any freight.:): One of his rams 



* "Don Pedro" was taken to Dupont's place, near New York. In 

 1802 he was placed on Delessert's farm, called Rosendale, near King- 

 ston, N". T., and was used there for four years. In 1805 Delessert 

 rented his farm, and sold his sheep at auction. The ram was bought 

 by Dupont's agent for sixty dollars. The half and three-quarter blood 

 ewes were sold to the surrounding farmers "at a price inferior to that 

 of common sheep," and above half of them "perished of neglect the 

 following winter." (Preface to Livingston's Essay.) Chancellor 

 Livingston found twenty-four of them and bought them after the in- 

 troduction of his Merinos. "Don Pedro" was removed, in 1808, to 

 E. I. Dupont's farm, near Wilmington, Delaware. That spirited gen- 

 tleman offered the ram's services gratuitously to his neighbors, but 

 scarcely any of them availed themselves of the offer! He, however, 

 founded a valuable flock for his owner. This superb animal, for that 

 day, weighed' 138 Ibs., and his fleece, well washed in cold water, 8 

 Ibs. 8 oz. His wool was fine and even, and he was a model of form. 



f Mr. Adams published this statement in the Albany Cultivator 

 nany years ago, and its authenticity has never been disputed. 



$ They were treated, on their arrival, exactly like his other sheep 



