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AN ESSAY 
0N SHEEP, WOOL, AN 3? WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES* 
SHhV/ING THE ADVANTAGE OF IMPROVING A-? 
MERICAN WOOL, B7 THE INTRODUCTION OF 
SPANISH SHEEP, ScC. 
ROB, R. LIFLYGSTOJV^ L. L. D, President of the Sodetyc 
Jl HAVE seen with pleasure that the agriculture 
of my native country has improved consiilerably, 
in the short space of four years, the time of my ab¬ 
sence. Much however remains to be done before 
it acquires that perfection to which all nations 
should aspire, but which none that I have seen in 
Europe, Lombardy and south Holland excepted, 
have in any degree attained. England, though she 
boasts with reason some of the best farmers in the 
world, is but partially improved, many districts are 
ill cultivated and old habits are not yet rooted out. 
I sliall, as time and leisure admit, take occasion to 
lay before you such practices of the old world as I 
think may be advantageously adopted by the new ; 
at present I wish to draw your attention to a sub¬ 
ject which our probable rupture with some of the 
'European powers, renders peculiarly interesting at 
this moment. I mean the improvement in our 
breed of sheep. It is upon this that we must rely 
for our independence upon Europe, in an article of 
the first necessity. 
The sheep of this state, taken collectively, are 
