xxx INTRODUCTION. 
continue to fuftain and propagate a difadvantage, than take 
to themfelves the fuppofed* difcredit of inferior judgment or 
inferior fuccefs, however confequent upon the mere acciden- 
tal circumftances of their fituation, But this untoward 
difpofition among farmers, breeders, and graziers, is now 
happily leffening; and a fpirit of more liberal enquiry and 
conduét feems to be extending through the nation. 
For a breeder to poffefs cortect notions of the fources of 
improvement, it is neceflary to confider, where the moft 
complete animals for his purpofe are to be found, in a ftate 
of nature? Analogical reafoning may induce a general opi- 
nion in favour of finding thofe animals at home, natives of 
the climate, which may be moft ufeful and profitable in that 
climate. The probability is, that they wi// be found there 
in the mof? confiderable degree; although an opinion has 
been formed, as an exception to the general rule in fome 
cafes, and for fome purpofes; an opinion formed alfo by 
analogy, from the known improvement of our horles by 
admixture with the native races of Arabia. This adyantage 
may be real with refpect to /peed, /irength in proportion to 
the fize, and as to beauty; but whether as to an increafed 
difpofition to mature and to fatten, (main points of import- 
ance in the improvement of neat cattle) is not fo clear. 
That quicknefs of ftep, and ftrength in proportion to fize, 
(both important for draught) may be imparted to the ox 
by fuch admixture, is little doubted where the experiment 
has been fairly tried. Thefe advantages are fuppofed to 
have been afcertained by an admixture of the lighter, fmaller- 
boned French, Norman, and Guernfey, with fome of our 
own. But whether this produétion has been fuperior in 
thofe refpects to the unmixed natives of our own fouthern 
and fouth-weftern counties on’ the coaft, is yet confidered 
by fome as doubtful. Others ftrongly maintain the affir- 
mative; 
