B34 FINE WOOL SITKEP HUSBANDRY. 
on board of a sloop destined to that river. The nine 
which died were principally killed in consequence of 
bruises received by the violent rolling of the vessel on 
the banks of Newfoundland.”* 
It does not appear, from his writings, that Colonel 
Humphreys paid any attention to the difference in the 
cabanas in Spain.t It has been suggested to me, by 
* See Col. Humphreys’ Works, p. 349. In this gentleman’s poem 
“On the Industry of the United States of America,” after a glowing 
description of the times: 
“ When true utility, with taste allied, 
Shall make our homespun garbs our Nation’s pride,” 
he proceeds to say— 
‘Not guarded Colchis gave admiring Greece 
So rich a treasure in its golden fleece. 
“Oh, might my guidance from the downs of Spain, 
Lead a white flock across the western main; 
Famed, like the bark that bore the Argonaut, 
Should be the vessel with the burden fraught! 
Clad in the raiment my Merinos yield, 
Like Cincinnatus, fed from my own field, 
Far from ambition, grandeur, care, and strife, 
In sweet fruition of domestic life ; 
There would I pass, with friends, beneath my trees, 
What rests from public life in lettered ease.” 
+ “Tam indebted to George Livermore, Esq., of Boston, for several 
MSS. letters of Colonel Humphreys, specially on the subject of his 
sheep, addressed io different correspondents, and not one of them 
mentions or alludes to this subject. If I recollect aright the name of 
any separate cabana does not occur in his published papers. He was 
the son of a clergyman, and, not long after leaving college, entered the 
army. During his two years’ residence at Mount Vernon he doubtless 
acquired many agricultural tastes, but he could have known httle or 
‘ nothing of it practically until his return from Spain. Prior to that pe- 
riod his leisure hours appear to have been devoted to polite literature. 
Ile does not mention ever even seeing any of the great Spanish flocks; 
and alone mentions, as the sources of the information given by him in 
his Dissertation, “the facts stated, in some instances, by respectable 
individuals, and, in others, by official reports.” 
