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one- sixth of a dollar there, and that after takhig out 

 Jor the comh^ the wool that will not card, the rest is 

 kept for kerseys and blankets. Hence England leads 

 the world in the coarse xvoollen manufacture and com- 

 merce. This point has escaped the emperor of France 

 in his energetic Merino plan. He is in real danger of 

 rendering his woollen branch too fine and costly. The 

 comparative utility of the two kinds of wool is evin- 

 ced by the fact, that the British do not manufacture of 

 Spanish and Hereford and South Down (the finer class- 

 es of) wool, one- fourth part of their whole quantity. 

 Very much of the cloths of these are used in the 

 United Kingdom, and in their various colonies. Their 

 foreign trade rests but little on these ^/2<?^^ wools and 

 cloths. Their great shipments to foreign countries are 

 in *' worsted stuffs'''* of combed wool, and in woollen 

 cloths, plains, coatings, kerseys, bookings, draperies, 

 kendalls, flannels, lion skins, carpets, blankets and 

 other goods of carded wool, from the heavy fleeced 

 and long woolled sheep of the Lincolnshire, Teeswater, 

 Leicestershire, South (Devon:) Cotteswold (Gloces- 

 tershire) and Kentish flocks, and from various other 

 flocks or breeds that do not bear fine wool. 



The great objectat present in the United States, is the 

 utmost economy of our wool. It is therefore suggested 

 and submitted, that every thing for service, should be 

 tweeled or twilled, for strength and duration. The 

 kersey is a peculiarly important example. Cotton and 

 leathern substitutes for woollens are well worthy of at- 

 tention, and ought to be used. The size of yarn for 

 the chain and filling of kersey, (and so of blankets) can 

 be exactly settled by examining a piece of narrow, or 



