34 FINE WOOL SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 



on board of a sloop destined to that river. The nine 

 which died were principally killed in consequence of 

 bruises received b y the violent rolling of the vessel on 

 the banks of Newfoundland."* 



It does not appear, from his writings, that Colonel 

 Humphreys paid any attention to the difference in the 

 cabanas in Spain. f It has been suggested to me, by 



* See Col. Humphreys' Works, p. 349. In this gentleman's poem 

 "On the Industry of the United States of America," after a glowing 

 description of the times : 



" When true utility, with taste allied, 

 Shall make our homespun garbs our Nation's pride," 

 he proceeds to say 



" Not guarded Colchis gave admiring Greece 

 So rich a treasure in its golden fleece. 



" Oh, might my guidance from the downs of Spain, 

 Lead a white flock across the western main; 

 Famed, like the bark that bore the Argonaut, 

 Should be the vessel with the burden fraught ! 

 Clad in the raiment my Merinos yield, 

 Like Cincinnatus, fed from my own field, 

 Far from ambition, grandeur, care, and strife, 

 In sweet fruition of domestic life ; 

 There would I pass, with friends, beneath my trees, 

 What rests from public life in lettered ease." 



f "I am indebted to George Livermore, Esq., of Boston, for several 

 MSS. letters of Colonel Humphreys, specially on the subject of his 

 sheep, addressed to different correspondents, and not one of them 

 mentions or alludes to this subject. If I recollect aright the name of 

 any separate cabana does not occur in his published papers. He was 

 the son of a clergyman, and, not long after leaving college, entered the 

 army. During his two years' residence at Mount Yernon he doubtless 

 acquired many agricultural tastes, but he could have known little or 

 nothing of it practically until his return from Spain. Prior to that pe- 

 riod his leisure hours appear to have been devoted to polite literature. 

 He does not mention ever even seeing any of the great Spanish flocks 

 and alone mentions, as the sources of the information given by him in 

 his Dissertation, " the facts stated, in some instances, by respectable 

 individuals, and, in others, by official reports." 



