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holders were an indigent peasantry, who sought on¬ 
ly to be sheltered from the cold, instead of being 
what they are, and I trust always will be, men in 
such easy circumstances as to look beyond the 
mere necessaries, to the conveniences and comforts 
of life. Such men will take a pride and pleasure 
in being dressed in clothes whose softness and pli¬ 
ancy give warmth to the body, pleasure to the 
touch, and grace to the wearer. And they will be 
doubly proud of this, if it is the product of their 
own farms, and of the industry of their wives and 
daughters. That this is the fact, we may infer 
from the quantity of foreign clothes, that are worn 
by farmers, whose own flocks might supply them 
abundantly with cloth of inferior quality, if they 
looked only to vrarmth in their dress : and from 
the attention that those among them, whom econ¬ 
omy or patriotism induce to wear their own wool, 
pay to rendering the cloth as fine as the materials 
will admit. If however it should be thought, that 
cloth finer than the 3d quality of British cloth, 
which is generally w^orn by people in easy circum¬ 
stances in our country, would be unnecessary, this 
may be procured by crossing our breed with the 
merino, so as to have half or even quarter bred 
Spanish sheep. This would add to the quantity as 
Well as to the fineness of the fleece, and by sorting it 
in the manner described in the annexed drawing, we 
would have wool sufficiently fine for the master of 
the family and for his children, with a coarser sort 
for the domestics. In fact, the introduction of this 
