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manageitient. Numbers have been imported, but 
trace of them remains after the third or fourth geni^ 
eration, unless it be near the sea coast, where tht 
climate is moist, and where they can occasionally 
have recourse to the salt meadows. Add to this, 
that the flavor of all this factitious mutton (if 1 may 
use thjs terra) is very much inferior to that of those 
tvhich are capable of maintaining themselves in 
health and vigor with less care and attention-^ 
It should be observed, that the prices above no^ 
ted are near fifty per cent, less than wool of the sam^^ 
quality would bring in the United States, and that 
We discriminate less as to the quality. When howev¬ 
er we manufacture more extensively, wx shall ne¬ 
cessarily distinguish the different qualities of woob 
and of course Spanish wool will bear the same rela^' 
tion in price, to fleeces of inferior quality that it 
does elsewhere. Should we on the other hand 
groAV more wool than we choose to manufacture (of 
which there are strong indications at present) since 
it is the only article that has ever risen iir price, 
this many years, Spanish wool would become an 
important article of exportation to every part of 
Europe, since we find that even in Spain, it is 
worth (the finest) about 8s the pound. The mar>. 
kets of England would always be open to it, and 
such is her demand, that if we could supply her 
consumption of 6,000,OOOib. it Would restore to 
our mutual advantage the balance of commerce be¬ 
tween us. 
