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ogother with Ilieir lambs, 12 in number. The purity of the sheep was 

 ;uai anteed by Jarvis. The sale was not successful, only 18 being dis- 

 used of a Paular ram, 3 Paular and 2 Aguirres ewes being sold to 

 B. Venable, president of the Virginia Bank, for $1,200, and 2 rams, 

 ewes, and 2 lambs to other parties for $862. The Merinos did not 

 eem to be appreciated and the business was dull, the sheep badly dis- 

 ased upon their arrival, and the consignees apparently ignorant of the 

 care and management of them. Of the remainder of these Kichmond 

 sheep, 1 Paular and 1 Negretti ram, 2 Paular and 14 Negretti ewes were 

 shipped to New York, March 22, 1811 5 and 5 rams, 43 ewes, and 14 

 lambs to Mr. Hooe, at Alexandria, where they were offered for sale 

 June 5, and again on June 24. 



We have given the number of arrivals at Charleston as five vessels, 

 with 563 sheep. The first was a brig, which arrived September 25, 1810, 

 with 150 sheep from Cadiz. As the records of the Charleston custom- 

 house were destroyed during the war of the rebellion we are unable to 

 say to whom they were consigned. The papers of that day are silent 

 on the subject, nor do they contain any advertisement concerning them. 

 The Corporal Trim, arriving January 1, 1811, brought 80 sheep from 

 Lisbon consigned to Joseph Winthrop. Several of these were killed 

 by dogs a few days after their arrival, and the others were sold at pri- 

 vate sale. Of the 125 by the Susan and William, from Cadiz, we have 

 no record, and our knowledge of the cargo of the Fidelia, is fragment- 

 iary. All that is certain is, that on March 6, 1811, the Fidelia, bound to 

 Charleston, put in at Philadelphia in distress, having on board 118 sheep ; 

 ;she had lost 104. Why she should have put in at an inland port is 

 strange, unless she was owned there. There is no subsequent record of 

 her cargo. It is possible that the sheep were unloaded and disposed of 

 at Philadelphia, although there is no evidence of that fact. The Cor- 

 poral Trim arrived on July 15, 1811, with 90 consigned to Joseph Win- 

 throp, which were disposed of at private sale. An arrival not included 

 in the schedule as given was that of 32 sheep from Norfolk on Febru- 

 ary 1, 1811, consigned to J. Eoddey & Co. 



The first recorded arrival of the Merinos at any point south of Charles- 

 ton was on November 15, 1810, when Marquaud, Paulding & Co., of Sa- 

 vannah, Ga., offered for sale "four Merino rams of first breeds (any 

 trifling reports to the contrary notwithstanding) just arrived from Es- 

 ;remadura, via New York." The prices realized were low. In the Sa- 

 rannah Republican of January 31, 1811, appears the following: 



NEW YORK, January 21, 1811. 



The ship Ann, late from Lisbon, brought out, consigned to Lawrence & Whitney, 

 * Merino rams of extraordinary beauty, size, and fine fleece. They are of the Escu- 

 jrial breed, and were selected from a very large flock at an expense of six times the 

 extraordinary price of Merino sheep. We understand they are pronounced by 

 persons well acquainted with the animals to be the most valuable Merino rams ever 

 imported into this country. 



