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should be fine is mixed with the superfine, and the third sort 

 probably borrows of the fourth. Hence, he states, of the wool 

 imported from Spain into England, in 20 parts of wool, the super- 

 fine now forms from 16 to 17, the fine 2f to 3|, and the third 

 sort from * to 1$. It is even probable, that the weight of the 

 sheep's wool is at this time augmented by the addition of parts 

 of that of the lambs, in spite of the prohibition of that practice by 

 law, in the provinces of Leon and Segovia. Perhaps too, none 

 of the sorts are without a mixture of the wool of those sheep, 

 which have died of disease before the time of shearing. 



