C 3S8 ] 



" Spanifli, or ^arbary horfe or mare ; and as our 

 " befl: Englifli pigs have been greatly improved by 

 *' a mixture with the Chincfe. And I fhould expeft 

 " to find more good ftieep, cattle, and horfes, in 

 " Shetland, the Highlands of Scotland, the deferts 

 " of Arabia, the Welch mountains, the iflands of 

 " Jerfey, Guernfey, and Alderney, and in the north 

 *' of Devon, where the blundering art and conceit 

 " of man has never reached them, than in the Mid- 

 •* land counties, where all the quackery and myflcry 

 " have been praftifed. It is an opinion too univer- 

 *' fally prevalent, that the breed of animals found in 

 *' any one diflrift is more particularly adapted to. the 

 *' nature of the climate, and other circumftances rc- 

 " lating thereto, than any other that could be in- 

 ** troduced into it ; and that the particular qualities 

 *' of any breed of any domeftick anim.al, that may 

 " have continued long in any one diflricl:, are chiefly 

 ** to be attributed to the nature of the pafture, or 

 *' fome particularities of the foil or climate of that 

 " difl:ri£l, and not to any diiference in the primitive 

 *' qualities of the original breed: both of which 

 " opinions I know to be erroneous. And furely 

 *' fuch bigoted farmej-s cannot know how long the 

 " filk-worm was confined to a particular diflrift of 

 ** Afia, before it was known that it could be reared 

 *' to as great perfection in many parts of Europe 

 *' as in its original native country ; — that pears, 



*' cherries. 



