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weeks wherein we have abfolute caufe of complaint. 
However, although they are of much fhorter dura- 
tion, the feverity of our fufferings, during their con- 
tinuance, is what they could comparatively have had 
no idea of; as our flocks, amply provided for through 
the greateft part of the year, are in confequence 
more numerous. As they are, from an enlarged 
frame and refined properties, individually, of much 
more value, and having, in great meafure, attained 
their comparative excellence from fuch pampering 
and foftering, are much more fufceptible of injury 
from abftinence than were the hardy rabbit-like ani- 
mals of many of our anceftors; depaftured, during 
fummer, chiefly on commons or common-field lands, 
and through the winter months fubfifting, in no fmall 
degree, on the roots and filth of their fallowed fields. 
As, from ftate exigences, we begin to be indivi- 
dually called on, for greater attention and energy 
- than heretofore, it is full time to acquire and 
employ them; and to difcern and acknowledge 
that the all-bountiful Author of Nature, if we keep 
our minds open to convi&tion, has not been more 
{paring of his gifts, generally fpeaking, at or for the 
confumption of one feafon of the year than another; 
and with refpeé&t to a fupply for the above-ftated 
deficiency, if we attentively feek it, we hall not have 
far to travel; it will be found at our doors. 
In the Turnip-rooted Cabbage, originally from Lap- 
Jand, will be found a remedy for all our grievances, 
a general 
