Class I. O X. 



tity of cattle that appear from the lateft calculation 

 to have been confumed in our metropolis, is a fuf- 

 ficient argument of the vail plenty of thefe times •, 

 particularly when we confider the great advance- 

 ment of tillage, and the numbcrlefs variety of pro- 

 vifions, unknown to pall ages, that are now intro- 

 duced into thefe kingdoms from all parts of the 

 world *. 



Our breed of horned cattle has in general been fo 

 much improved by a foreign mixture, that it is dif- 

 ficult to point out the original kind of thefe 

 idands. Thofe which may be fuppofed to have 

 been purely Britijh are far inferior in fize to thofe 

 on the northern part of the European continent: 

 the cattle of the highlands of Scotland are exceed- 

 ing fmall, and many of them, males as well as fe- 

 males, are hornlefs : the Weljh runts are much 

 larger : the black cattle of Cornwall are of the fame 

 fize with the lad. The large fpecies that is now 

 cultivated through moft parts of Great-Britain are 

 either entirely of foreign extradtion, or our own 

 improved by a crofs with the foreign kind. The 

 Lincolnjhire kind derive their fize from the Holjlein 



* That inquifitive and accurate hlftorian Maitland furniflies 

 us with this table of the quantity of cattle that were con- 

 fumed in London above 30 years ago, when that city was far 

 kfs populous than it is at prefent. 

 Beeves 98,244. Pigs 52,000. 



Calves 194,760. Sheep and 7 



Hogs 186,932. Lambs i 



C 3 breed ; 



21 



