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other rams having the same quality of wool. The produce of 
1830 included only one ram and one ewe having the silky quality of 
the wool; that of 1831 produced four rams and one ewe with the 
fleece of that quality. In 1833, the lambs with the silky variety 
of wool were very numerous. In each subsequent year the 
lambs were of two kinds—one preserving the character of the 
ancient race with the curled, elastic wool, only a little longer and 
finer than in the ordinary Merinos: the other resembling the 
rams of the new breed, some of which retained the large head, 
long neck, narrow chest, and long flanks of the abnormal 
progenitor, while others combined the ordinary and better formed 
body with the fine silky wool. 
M. Graux. profiting by this partial resumption of the normal 
type of the Merino in certain of the descendants of the malformed 
original variety, at length succeeded in obtaining a flock com¬ 
bining the long, fine silky fleece with a smaller head, shorter neck, 
broader flanks, and more capacious chest. Of this breed the 
flocks have become sufficiently numerous to enable the proprietor 
to sell examples of the breed for exportation. This variety, 
mixed with the ordinary Merino, has also produced a valuable 
quality of wool, known in France as the “ Mauchamp Merino.” 
The fine silky wool of the pure Mauchamp breed is remarkable 
for its qualities, as combining wool having strength, as well as 
the length and fineness of the fibre. It is found of great value 
by the manufacturers of Cashmere shawls, being second only to 
the true Cashmere fleece in the fine flexible delicacy of the fibre, 
and of particular utility when combined with the Cashmere 
wool, in imparting to the manufacture qualities of strength 
and consistence in which pure Cashmere is deficient. This 
valuable variety ought to be introduced and acclimatised in this 
colony. 
The comparative moist climate of England is unfavourable to 
the development of the highest qualities of wool; but they breed 
sheep for mutton superior to any in the world—not for wool, 
which it is now ascertained can be produced cheaper than at 
home in the temperate climates of Australia and New Zealand, 
and Southern Africa. 
Some Shanghai sheep, recently introduced into this colony by 
Mr. Henry Moore, have wool perfectly white. They possess great 
reproductive powers, and breed twice in a year, and produce four 
and five at a birth, the three ewes in the Zoological Gardens of 
London having in the spring produced thirteen lambs. 
Among other valuable animals which may be acclimatised 
