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3. finerfloece amotigmanv hundred Spanish beasts § that 

 I have examin^'d; a'* well those iatelj imported froni 

 Spaia^ as the flocks that have been uatuialized these 

 many years. That ram belongs to the seventh or eighth 

 generation, born in Fiane»% ovt of the orir;2;inal tioek 

 a rived from Spain, aiway breeding in and in, with a 

 rema-kab!e iiicrease of weight in t'ie animals and in 

 tiieir fleece. Tiese facts deserve attention. \ ou may 

 see in tiie hist report of Tessier and Hazard, concern- 

 ing the S!jeep of [la!ii'>onillet, the residts of the com- 

 parison between the nevvly arrived Spanish rams and 

 evvejB, and the old stock issued from individuals ^drawn 

 from Spain eighteen years ago ; I have seen the two 

 flocks, and would have prejudged the fact as it is stated, 

 Jn my flock, the mean weight of the fleeces of the ewes 

 of the Rambouillet breed, has been seven pounds twelve 

 ounces (pois de mare) in the yolk. Now, the mean 

 weight of the fleeces of the Spacisli ewes arrived last 

 year <it thi'ee of my ncigljbours' premises, has been five 

 pounds. As to the comparative fir.'Micss, no better cri- 

 terion could possibly be obtained, than the price fixed by 

 the merchants and manufacturers in the public sale ai 

 Rauibouillet. The manufacturei's do not act at random, 

 when they give a price full as high for that wool as for 

 the prime Leonese, coming from Sipain; th^y have 

 ki>Qvvn its value, by repeated experiments, these many 

 years." [To be continued,] 



§ A French idiou;ezj.ressive«f Sljeep. 



Intern AT> Prospicts. 



"While our fellow citizens on the sea board, have been 

 harrassed and embarrassr-rj, by the increasing impedi- 

 ments to a fee and lucrative commerce ; the people of 

 the westci'n country have great cause of giatitude to 

 Heaven, f )r the pieasing and happy prospects which are 

 dally opening to their view. The annals of the world 

 dy not afford aii :nsta:]cc of a country so swiftly advau- 



