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A^J^PERSON gives the value of wool In the Lon« 
don market about:the same period, wliicb reduced 
Ip our money stands thus ; for the best 
German 
22 Cents» 
Polish 
25 
British 
17 
White Persian 
84 
Red Carramuman 
100 
Spanish 
93 
appears from this, that 
the finest Spanish wool 
is not carried to England, since the price there was 
below the price at Madrid about the same period. 
Gov. Pownal in a letter to Arthur Youiigj 1788, 
gives the following as the average prices of British 
wool : Coarse 7 and an half pence, common 8 and 
an half pence, fine li pence the whole fleece ; that 
is, reduced to our money about, coarse 14 cents, 
common 16, and fine 20 ; the south-down, which 
appears to me to have the staple of our best wool, 
Is or Is and 9 pence our money. This difference 
between the price of British and Spanish wool, is 
the more worthy our notice because it enables us to 
combat the prejudices which so generally prevail 
among us in favor of British sheep. We should 
then stop and examine candidly, how far those pre¬ 
judices are well founded, Britain contains a great 
variety of sheep, from the longwoolled sheep, bred 
in marshy grounds, to the small fine woolied sheep 
fed on the Welsh mountains. The Durham 
breedy which is I believe thelargeslj weighs about 
