XXxil INTRODUCTION. 
interior diftriSts, Nearly fimilar may, perhaps; be the ad- 
vantage of drawing aid from Suffex to diftris nearer that — 
county. Other kinds of admixture, for counties nearer 
approaching to northern and eajtern fhores, may poffibly be 
deemed equally important to the., But this latter idea 
may be confidered as more theoretical, and founded chiefly 
on the probability of lefs deterioration from chance admix- 
ture in new fituations. 
The partialities of the inhabitants of different diftrifis to’ 
thofe animals they are moft acquainted with, and which 
they can moft eafily procure, are not unnatural; and while 
thofe partialities are connected with a growing care to felect 
for breeding the faireft and fineft individuals of the different 
races and mixtures, the general advantage of improvement 
might be going on, though with unequal fuccefs, An 
uniform progrefs mult not be expected; and the ftandard of 
perfection will never be fixed. ‘There is, however, one 
great {cene of comparifon and inftruction to whiclt bteeders 
cannot be too attentive, for ftoring their minds with the 
principles of this fort of knowledge, and that is—the Londén 
market. There they will find, weekly, the moft varied 
affemblage of fhape and peculiarity; which any fpot, perhaps, 
on the habitable globe can furnifh. But if fymmetry and 
general excellence are valuable at once to the breeder and 
confumer, there the inhabitants of the Weft of England 
may difcover advantages in their own favour, which, how- 
ever unworthy to be the fubject of pride and exultation, 
may at leaft ferve to fatisfy them, that they have no need 
of reforting to diftant Britifh diftriéts for improvement of 
neat cattle. There the Devonfhire beafts, both oxen and 
females, and thofe of a mixture from that county, will bear 
the teft of a clofe comparifori with all others around them. - 
The obvious fiaenefs of bone and offal, and large quantity 
of 
