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960 - APP,ENDIX.a detail of the perfections included under cach of these heads, wouldfiUaquire ofpaper, alld take more time and leisure than 1 possess. Therefore, contentingmyS'elfwithwhat 1 have already pointed out, 1 sha11 conclude byobservingingeneral,. thatevery touch of the pen~il is laid on with snch jndgell?-ent, every tint drawn withsnchconsummate skill, as cause this picture, notwithstanding the disadvantage under whiéhthe painter laboured, toexceed in beauty and in value 0.11 the works or thekind,takenindividua11y orcollectively, il) the Escurial.l am aware that there are in this vast collection many master-pieces of themQ§tillustrions and clas&ical painters; bnt 1 affirm withont.fearofcontradiction,thatthereis not one which can be compared to this admirable production, in whiche'Veryngure,ta appearance, speaks and thinks: in a word, it is themost valnal);les.articleiof./thekind that any prince npon earth possesses.APPENDIX, No.II.ME8TA.-.THE W00L STAPLE OF SPAIN.THIS term is misappli~d, for it signifies in its stl"Îct sense tillage produce. The firsttrace of the wool staple of Spain is distinguished towards the latter part or the reignof Don Alonzo, the last king of that name.Although Spain is said to have been celebratedJorherwo()l~anyyea.rsprev~bus tatho.t œra, yet Ihere is preponderating reason ta conc1ude tho.t the fine7woolled sheepshe at present possesses descend from a breed originally brought from England, bythe return of her mcrchantmen, or carracas as they were called, *.King Alonzo, as is said, imported the she~p called at presentin England:Mednot,ï! Spain IVlerinas, and properly 1\·larinas, which explains the senSe or derivation of thename, viz. the sheep brought from beyond the seo.. Alonzo diedAn. 1350; sa that thefi1'st importation of this breed of sheep into the Peninsula may be dated An. 1345.,.. Those who dissent {rom this opiniO'Il say that the English w06l is Ilot sufficiently 1jhe ta admit ofher breed .of sheep being identified with the Merinas; that the woolis of different qualities,exclûsiveç{filleness; that the Spanishis soft, thilt of England elastic; the former short, the latter long; and inthese qualities resembling the fleece of the orclinary breed ofSpain, as weil as i.!1 others, whereby ~heyare,they say, applicable ta the same uses: and they dcrive the last-mcntioned hreed from the Engl~4importation.t Meri:no, a plate in Spain.