Letter received by Banks from Arthur Young, Board of Agriculture, 21 March 1805 (Series 23.48) - No. 0002

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with so much intelligence. Mr. Marsden's wools & management are very interesting: and the specimen of linen equally so. The wool improved is so fine with so small a power of selection in breeding that I think N.S.Wales bids fair for putting down the Spanish flocks in England provided fleeces can ye pressed like trusses of hay without injury; an experiment I do not know has yet been tried.

[The following possibly written by Banks]

If Spanish were Scowerd is worth