SOUTHERN AFRICA. 
Wool. 
This article is likely to become a fource of colonial revenue, 
which, till of late years, v;as never thought of ; and certainly 
never turned to any account, before the Deputy Paymafter's bills 
on his Majefty's Payrnafters-General became fo fcarce, and bore 
fuch high premiums, that the private merchant was glad to make 
his remittances in any kind of merchandize rather than paper. 
The wool of the common broad-tailed fheep of the Cape is little 
better than hair, and is confidered of no value whatfoever ; but 
there is a mixed breed in the colony, of Spanifh and Englifh, 
introduced by the late colonel Gordon, the wool of which is 
extremely beautiful, and feems to improve by every crofs. A 
family of the name of Van Reenen has paid fome attention to 
this fubjed, and by procuring European fheep, from time to 
time, out of ftiips that called for refrefhments, has fucceeded in 
improving their ftock beyond their expedlations. 
No trouble whatfoever is beftowed upon the flieep ; they nei- 
ther walh nor falve them, nor, till they were inftruded by the 
Englifh agriculturift, did they know how to fhear them. Yet, 
the wool taken off in this rough condition has fold, as I have 
been informed, in the London market at 3^. to 3 j. 6d, the 
pound. By a proper degree of attention being paid to the 
fheep, and by obviating any degeneracy in the breed from a 
crofs with the common Cape fheep, this article bids fair to be- 
come, in the courfe of a few years, one of the moft valuable 
and productive exports that the fettlement is capable of fur- 
nifhlng. 
