36 FINE WOOL SHIDEP WUSBANDRY. 
elsewhere seen, of a full-blood ram of this flock, owned 
by Mr. Bulkley, of Philadelphia, and lent by him to 
the writer in 1807.* This ram was very small, very 
fine, and produced but 4 Ibs. of washed wool. His 
“length of staple was somewhat less than that of Mr. 
Livingston’s rams.” “He was extremely gentle, and 
strongly marked with the carnation hue of skin; had 
spiral horns, and brownness of fleece surface, all of 
which qualities he faithfully transmitted to his progeny 
in their'usual proportions.” The “ brownness penetra- 
ted to some depth from the surface.” His lambs, when 
they came, were “covered with coarse hairs,” to the 
great suspicion of their paternity, until it was found 
this hair dropped off, and that his subsequent crops 
of lambs exhibited the same peculiarity. Here we 
have a distinct hint of Paular or Infantado character- 
istics. Yet Colonel Humphreys’ sheep could scarcely 
have been Paulars without some one alluding to their 
throatiness—a point which then attracted peculiar 
notice, both because it was unusual and regarded as 
unsightly. Besides, the sheep we now have among 
us, which can trace a clear descent from Colonel Hum- 
phreys’ flock, are not marked by this peculiarity unless 
it has been bred on them within the last fifteen or 
twenty years. It can hardly be presumed that the 
American Ambassador would have been placed by his 
Spanish acquaintances in the hands of an agent who 
would have purchased from an obscure flock, or one 
not among the first. I do not build up a hypothesis 
+ This writer mentions that he wrote the article on wool in the 
Cyclopedia; and he was the importer of the black Merinos next 
to be described I have had considerable search made in Philadelphia 
to discover his name, but as yet without success. 

