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brig Maria Elizabeth, under my own care. They 

 were 1G5 in number, belonging to myself and F. 

 Gebhard, of New-York. These sheep cost me $65 

 a head when landed in New- York. They sold at 

 an average of $50 ahead, thus sinking about $2400! 

 I need not say that they were exclusively of pure 

 blood. A cargo of 81 arrived soon after, but I know 

 nothing of their quality. The next importation con- 

 sisted of 184, on German account, per brig Warren. 

 With a few exceptions, they were pure-blooded and 

 good sheep. We next have an importation of 200 

 by the Bremen ship Louisa. They were commonly 

 called the " stop-sale sheep." They were of the 

 most miserable character, some of them being hard- 

 ly half-grade sheep. The ship Phrebe Ann brought 

 120 sheep, of which I know little, and 60 were land- 

 ed at Philadelphia, with the character of which I am 

 unacquainted. Having determined to settle in Amer- 

 ica, I returned to Saxony, and spent the winter of 

 1826-7 in 1 visiting and examining many flocks. I 

 selected 115 from, the celebrated flock of Machern, 

 embarked on board the ship Albion, and landed in 

 New- York June 27, 1827. In 1828 I received 80 

 more from the same flock, selected by a friend of 

 mine, an excellent judge of sheep. I first drove 

 them to Shaftesbury, adjoining the town of Hoosic, 

 where I now reside. On their arrival they stood 

 me in $70 a head, and the lambs half that sum." 



It should be remarked, that the above statements 

 were made by Mr. Grove with the greatest reluc- 

 tance, and only at the earnest solicitation, or, rather, 

 requisition of the committee, who conceived it their 

 duly to place the whole circumstances before the 

 public. 



It will be inferred, from the facts above stated, that 

 there are few Saxon flocks in the United States that 

 have not been reduced to the quality of grade sheep 

 by the promiscuous admixture of the pure and the 

 impure which were imported together, and att sold 



