APPENDIX. 



No. I. 



An Account of the Experiments made by M. Le Blanc, for im^ 

 proving the ^lality of Wool in France. 



[Extrafled from the Tableau Gipncral du Commerce, par M. Gournay, Avo. 

 cat, voce, MareuU-U-Port.'] 



In 1 762, M. Le Blanc, Member of the Provincial AfTembly 

 of Champagne, colledled a flock of 300 fheep, whofe wool he 

 fold the fucceeding year for 410 livres (about L.17 Sterling). 

 Little fatisfied with the refult, he determined to try what 

 could be eiFecHied by improving the breed. He procured, 

 therefore, fome fheep of a better race from Flanders, Picar- 

 dy, and the provinces in that neighbourhood ; and in three 

 years time he fold the wool of 300 fliecp for 520 liTres, and 

 in fix years for 680 livres, or L.28 : 6 : 8. 



This fuccefs was far from fatisfying his ambition. In 

 1775, he fct about procuring flieep of a ftlil better quality. 

 In 1783, he obtained a ram and two ewes of the Efcurial 

 breed from Spain, and two rams of the fame fpecies from 

 the famous flock of M. D'Aubenton, at Montbard *. From 

 that period, the quantity and the quality of his wool impro- 

 ved fo much, that the fleeces of 300 flaeep, in 1788, fold 

 for 2300 livres, or about L. 100 Sterling f. 



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* M. Le Blanc has fince been intrufted with a flock of two rams and 

 twenty-eight ewes, of the beft Spanifli breed, prefented by the King of 

 France to the Province of Champagne. 



f The quantity of the wool, by attending to the proper breed, was fo much 

 increafed, that even young rams, of two years old, produced fix pound two 



ounces 



