4() FINE WOOL SHEEP DCOSBANDRY. 
sent to England. [also purchased about one thousand 
three hundred Aqueirres, and selected about two 
hundred from the Montarcos. JI likewise purchased, 
in Spain, two hundred of the Escurial flock from the 
mayoral, which were the only Escurials ever sent to 
this country. I shipped, in 1809 and 1810, about 
three thousand eight hundred and fifty to this coun- 
try of the aforementioned flocks, being all which I 
purchased in Spain, and which were distributed as 
follows: about one thousand five hundred to New 
York; one thousand to Boston and Newburyport, 
including three hundred and fifty which I sent to 
be reserved for me; the remainder were sent to 
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Alexandria, Norfolk, and 
Richmond, and a small number to Wiscasset, Port- 
land, and Portsmouth, as I was disposed to distribute 
these valuable animals to every State which would be 
likely to profit by the acquisition. Those I reserved 
for myself were composed of about half Paulars, a 
uarter Aqueirres, and the other fourth of Escurials, 
egrettis, and Montarcos, which I subsequently mixed 
together. 
“There were sent, in the latter year (1810), by 
others, about two thousand five hundred, composed 
of Paulars, had of General Downie, Montarcos, 
Aqueirres and Guadalupes. Part of those went to 
New York, part to Boston. All those sheep were 
Leonesa, transhumantes, and were of the prime flocks 
of Spain. 
“I have been able to be thus minute in relation to 
the Merinos in 1809 and 1810, as I was then Ameri- 
can Consul at Lisbon, which was the port from which 
they were all shipped, it being only about one hun- 
dred miles to Badajos, and the nearest seaport to that 
place. 
It was thus our peculiar good fortune at the period 
of the final disruption, and dispersion to foreign lands 
