73 EUROPEAN SHEEP. 



Leonesa Transhumantes are found in that part of Spain, 

 there can be but little doubt that they belonged to that race. 



"I attempted in 1806, also in 1807, to obtain some from 

 the most celebrated flocks, but the laws were so strict against 

 • their exportation without royal license, that I failed of suc- 

 cess. After the French invasion in 1808, the law became 

 more relaxed, and in 1809, by special favor, I obtained two 

 hundred Escurials. At the second invasion of the French 

 nnder Joseph Bonaparte, the rapidity of the march of the 

 French troops hurried the Supreme Junta from Madrid, and 

 they retired to Badajos. Being without money, and being 

 afraid of disgusting the Estremadurans, by levying a tax 

 upon them, they were compelled to sell four of the first 

 flocks in Spain, which had been confiscated in consequence 

 of the proprietors joining the French. These were the 

 Paular, previously owned by the Prince of Peace ; the Ne- 

 gretti, previously owned by the Conde Del Campo de ^la^nge ; 

 the Aqueirres, which had been owned by the Conde of the 

 same name, and the Montarco, owned by the Conde de Mon- 

 tarco, and were such sheep as could not have been got out 

 of Spain, had it not been for the invasion of the French and 

 the distracted state of the country growing out of that inva- 

 sion. When the Junta sold, it was upon the express con- 

 dition of their granting licenses to carry them out of the 

 kingdom. Four thousand of the Paular flock were sent to 

 England for the king ; and Col. Downie, a Scotch ofiicer in 

 the British service, but who then held the rank of General 

 in the Spanish service, and I, purchased the remainder of 

 the flock, between three and four thousand more ; and of 

 this purchase, I took fourteen hundred, and he sent the rest 

 to Scotland with the exception of two or three hundred, 

 which he sold to come to this country. Sir Charles Stew- 

 art purchased the Negretti flock and sent them to England, 

 with the exception of about a hundred I got out of his flock 

 after they reached Lisbon. 



" I purchased about seventeen hundred of the Aqueirres 

 flock of the Junta, and the remainder was sold and sent to 

 England. The Montarco flock was^ bought by a Spaniard and 

 a Portuguese, and about two thousand seven hundred were 

 shipped to this country. I shipped to the United States 

 the fourteen hundred Paulars, one thousand seven hundred 

 Aqueirres, two hundred Escurial, one hundred Negrettig, and 

 about two hundred Montarcos. Of this number, about one 



