I 3 
and says, Th]s cnripMS cre£|tqre is qF a round 
broad shape, made like what the common people 
call a punch horse. The wool, compared with a 
flock of double lambed Carnavon sheep, appears 
like silk. He is valued at £500 sterling. J. am 
tpld that the ram was a present from his majesty of 
Spain to his majesty of Britain, and a noble present 
from our king to Mr. Bccleston.’^ 19 vol. 253. 
In all our manufactures, (speaking of French 
manufactures) we, mfike use of the 1st, 2d and 3d 
quality of fine Spanish wool. Of all the w^ool pro¬ 
duced in Eprope this, is most certainly (as is ac- 
knpyyle.dged by the manufacturers of all nations) 
the softest, the finest, and at the same time the 
strongest, on account of its elasticity, and the only 
fit to be used in the fabrication of fine and superfine 
cloth.” 16 yol. 228. 
“ English wool, though of great wwlh, is nei-= 
ther in ,France or England used in the fiibrication of 
superfine cloths, it is employed in that of camblets, 
serges, See. to which it is better adapted, on ac» 
count of its being rotten and dry, but long^ flue and 
shining.” ib. 229. 
The attention which has been given to wool oa; 
the Downs, among a few’ breeders has begot an 
gument, or rather assertion that the closer, finer, 
and firmer the c pat ofwpol, the better wrr[l,i the sheep 
tflriye and Py as» 
