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another elrcumstance which proves that 'the wool 
does not grow worse in France when the stock 
from which they sprung was good. In April eve¬ 
ry year, there is a sale of lambs of the preceding 
year, and qf wool ; the price of the latter was kept 
down by the artifices of the wool dealers, who pre¬ 
tended that'it was inferior to Spanish wool. Some 
of the manufacturers, however, having for the two or 
three last years produced cloth at the exhibition, 
made of this wool equal to- that from the finest 
Spanish wool, the price has advanced to^ a par with 
the wool brought from Spain, .) i li 
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I SHOULD observe that the fine FrencK cloths^ 
are finer and softer than those made in England, 
probably because very little of the fine'sSpanish 
wooEgoes to England, their import consisting of' 
the second and third sorts with some still coarseri 
The finest of the wool, to the amount of about 
three millions of pounds, is manufactujred at the 
royal factiiries in Spain, and the remainder goes tb 
France and Italy. The quantity of wool drawn- 
from Spain by France, was before the revolution 
about’4,C00,0b01b. but the manufactures; having 
been ruined during the‘revolution, 'it was gfektlyC 
diminished ; what it,, is no^w I cannot declare. In 
^he year ,1786, England imported only threevinii- 
liqns, but in the, ye^r 1796 the following is the state 
of the legal export frorq Spain, some is always, 
itiauggied into France and elsewhere. 
