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be sold at auction at Broomla-wn. The sale was not very successful, for 

 many of tlie sheep were diseased. 



The next sale ,at Alexandria was apart of the cargo of the Hunter, 

 which arrived February 6, 1811, bringing 47 Infantados from Cailiz. 

 John jMason and Thompson Mason reserved some of tliese for tlieh- 

 own farms, and the disposition of the remainder is told iu this adver- 

 tisement of Eobert Patton, jr., auctioneer, in the Alexandria Gazette 

 of February 14, 1811: 



For sale, on the 20th of this mouth, 11 rams and 13 ewes, with 6 young lambs, of 

 the real Merino breed, imported in the brig Hunter, Capt. Johnston, from Cadiz, 

 being part of the flock of his excellency the Duke d' Infantado, as certified by Don 

 Antoni Maino, corregidor of Gibraltar; and which sheep were obtained from the 

 interior by Richard S. Hackley, esq., American consul at Cadiz, and particularly 

 selected, being part of the flock imported by Gen. John and Thompson Mason in the 

 brig Hunter. 



We have no further record of these sheep, unless it be in the adver- 

 tisement of Jacob Morgan, of Alexandria, April 25, 1811, who offered 

 for sale 5 rams and 15 ewes shipped by Eichard S. Hackley, American 

 consul at Cadiz, Spain. As no arrivals are reported from Cadiz suc- 

 ceeding that of the Hunter, it is presumed that these sheep are a part 

 of her shipment. It is also probable that of this importation Dr. 

 Increase Matthews, of Putnam, Ohio, bought an Infantado ram and 2 

 ewes June 13, 1811, and had them taken in a wagon from Alexandria 

 to his farm in Ohio, where he kept up a pure flock until about 1850. 



On June 5, 1811, Mr. Hooe offered at public sale 60 to 70 Merino 

 sheep, principally ewes of the best breeds in Spain, Paulars and 

 Aguirres, shipped some months ago by Jarvis, " and are now in good 

 order, and their fleeces remarkably fine." A few of these were sheep 

 that had been diseased and kept over winter; some of them were 

 brought from Eichmond the latter part of March, which Myers & Co. 

 had been unable to dispose of at that place. They were not sold on 

 June 5, and the sale was postponed to the 24th, at which time we lose 

 trace of them. 



The Merinos (Infantados) imported by the Masons, as also those 

 offered for sale by Mr. Morgan, both lots shipped by Eichard S. Hack- 

 ley, American consul at Cadiz, were undoubtedly a part of those 

 spoken of by Charles Henry Hall in his letter already quoted, as being 

 purchased of the Duke de Infantado. 



There were two arrivals at Georgetown, D.,C., the Henry and Cler- 

 mont, carrjdng 19 sheep, and the Ann with 120, both from Lisbon. The 

 Henry and Clermont arrived early in January, 1811, and on the 19th 

 Eobert Parrott offered 14 ewes, 1 ram, and 4 lambs, "selected out of a 

 flock of some thousands bought by one of the houses of Goold Bros. & 

 Co. of the prior of the royal monastery of Guadaloupe and conducted 

 to Lisbon by Manuel Larin, their mayoral or chief shepherd." The 

 Ann's cargo consisted of Montarcos shipped by Charles O'Neil. On 



