90 EUROPEAN SHEEP. 



country and Saxony. The German newspapers teemed 

 with advertisements of sheep for sale, headed ' Good for 

 the American market ;' and these sheep in many instances 

 were actually bought up for the American market at five, 

 eight, and ten dollars a head, when the pure bloods could not 

 be purchased at from less than 30 to 40 dollars each. In 

 1826, Messrs. Searle, imported three cargoes, amounting in 

 the aggregate to 513 sheep. They were of about the same 

 character with their prior importations, in the main good, but 

 mixed with some grade sheep. On the ^ same year, a cargo 

 of 321 arrived, on German account, Emil Bach, of Leipsic, 

 supercargo. A few more good sheep, and of pure blood ; 

 but taken as a lot they were miserable. The owners sunk 

 about 3000 dollars. Next came a cargo of 210 on German 

 account ; Wasmuss & Multer owners. The whole cost of 

 these was about #1,125, in Germany. With the excep- 

 tion of a small number, procured to make a flourish on, in 

 their advertisement of sale, they were sheep having no pre- 

 tensions to purity of blood. In 1827, the same individuals 

 brought out another cargo. These were selected exclusive- 

 ly from grade flocks of low character. On the same year 

 the Messrs. Searle made their last importation, consisting 

 of 182 sheep. Of these I know little. My friends in Ger- 

 many wrote me that they were, like their other importations, 

 a mixture of pure and impure blooded sheep. It is due, 

 however, to the Messrs. Searle to say, that as a whole, their 

 importations were much ietter than any other made into 

 Boston. 



" I will now turn your attention to the importations made 

 into other ports. In 1825, 13 Saxons arrived in Portsmouth. 

 They were miserable creatures. In 1826, 191 sheep ar- 

 rived in New York, on German account. A portion of these 

 were well descended and valuable animals, the rest were 

 grade sheep. In June, the same year, the brig Louisa 

 brought out 173 on German account. Not more than one- 

 third of them had the least pretensions to purity of blood. 

 Next we find 158, shipped at Bremen, on German account. 

 Some were diseased before they left Bremen, and I am 

 happy to state that twenty-two died before their arrival in 

 New York. All I intend to say of them is, that they were 

 a most curious and motley mess of wretched animals. The 

 next cargo imported arrived in the brig Maria Elfeabeth, 

 under my own care. Thev were 165 in number, belonging 



