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Mr. Marfhall, who has fo fully examined, and 
fo ably defcribed, the prefent ftate of the dairy in 
both diftricts, leans f{trongly to that opinion. 
Although this diftrict varies as much, apparently, 
in foil ana fituation as almof any two counties can 
do, it is amazing how ftrong the predilection is to 
the dairy, and particularly to the making of cheefe 
in every part of it; and fiill more fo, that the cheefe 
produced on foils and fituations totally diffimilar, 
fhould frequently be found, when under fkilful 
management, to be equally good. A {trong proof, 
that although foil and fituation may, in fome mea- 
fure, contribute to the production of that neceflary 
article, yet art contributes more, or, perhaps, in 
other words, the dairy-women of this diftrid, who 
happen to be fituated in foils and fituations natu- 
rally unfavourable to the making of cheefe, have 
by attention and obfervation, found out the caufes 
and the remedies for the faults peculiar to cheefe 
made from their own dairies; and nothing has con- 
tributed more to excite that attention and obferva- 
tion, than the rivalfhip neceffarily produced ina 
diftrict, anxious, at firft, to rival their neighbours 
in the vale of Gloucefter, and then to keep up the 
fuperiority in goodnefs, and of courfe in price, 
which North-Wiltthire cheefe had, by degrees, 
acquired. 
But aithough the dairy has, from time to time, 
made great in-roads on the arable lands of this 
diftrict, 
