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mative; and this is no fmall proof of the general excellence 
of both. To our own counties on the coafts, and perhaps 
preferably to thofe parts of the coafts laft-mentioned, we 
may expect to refort for our own pureft and moit valuable 
breeds. Devon and Suffex prefent themfelves for our ap- 
probation. ‘The general fimilarity is ftriking,; but fome 
difference, as to coarfenefs about the head and neck, appears 
againit the Suffex race. 
In proportion as we recede towards the centre of the 
nation, we difcover the effects of accidental mixture, in a 
vait variety of colour, fize, and fhape; of comparative 
beauty and clumfinefs; difficult to be defcribed. An al- 
moft equally heterogenious mixture may be difcovered, as 
the produce of the interior parts of Scotland and Wales. 
Nor is this variety of deteriorated animals to be wondered 
at, when it is confidered how inattentive, till of late years, 
have been the great majority of breeders to feleCtion and 
improvement, in the propagation of neat cattle. The 
procuring of the number wanted in the fhorteft way fhould 
feem to have been the main object in view, till a more 
general intercourfe of breeders, by means of improved roads, 
became favourable to comparative obfervation and know- 
ledge. An attentive comparifon of propagated deformity, 
with the lefs mixed and more beautiful droves from the 
clearer, warmer atmofphere of the fouth weftern coatft, 
could not fail to ftrike and fuggeft ideas of more careful 
management in the bufinefs of breeding. ‘Thus we feem 
to have been indebted for new tafte. From whatever local 
caufe or caufes it has arifen, the fact feems to be generally 
admitted in thefe weftern counties, that the county of 
Devon furnifhes the moft uniform and generally-valuable 
race of neat cattle for the moft important ufes, and particu- 
larly for the purpofes of improving by mixture the ftock of 
interior 
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