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whose enterprizes certainly should be encouraged.
Sheep with Care certainly do extremely well, no greater proof of which need be adduced than their progressive greater increase without the aid of Expo Importation. In our last Muster in February there were in the Colony 17,000 Male & Female Sheep 6000 of which belonged to M A and of the Whole Number not more than Two Thirds produced Wool and One Third fine Wool. Each Fleece when washed may on an average produce 3 lb of Wool, and let the price when carried to by land freight included be an average 2/ a pound. This at the Spring of 1806 will produce the proprietor (suppose he carried all the Sheep in the Colony) 5100£. But as M.A. has only 6000 of the Whole Number, I believe Half that Number are fine & good wool, which will enable him, in 1806 to export say 6000 Sheep at 3s a Fleece & 4 a pound as an average would be £3600, perhaps 4 a pound our rate - and as the Sheep double themselves in Two Years, from this data a Calculation say made when New South Wales may save England 180,000£ a Year by supplying Spanish or fine wool for the Home Manufactories.
My Lord Camdens letter on this Subject consigned in the Report of the Board of Trade prescribing that M.A. should have 5000 Acres of Land when he