Now, as the population of any country 

 can only increafe in proportion to the means 

 of fubfifteiice which it poffefles, it evidently 

 appears, that to multiply the breed of horfes, 

 is to deitroy the human race ; and, that who- 

 ever keeps an unneceffary horfe, is facrificing 

 four of his own fpecies upon the altar of va- 

 nity. 



The vaft quantities of grain ufed in diftil- 

 lation cannot but be thought to affect the 

 price of provifions very confiderably. 



The quantity of grain diflilled in Scotland 

 in 1787, is afferted to have been almoft equal 

 to the whole that was produced in the coun- 

 try ; and as it may be juftly faid, that one 

 third of all the barley in Britain is diflilled, 

 we cannot avoid perceiving how much the 

 price of every kind of provifion mufl thereby 

 be augmented : efpecially, when to this is 

 added, the very advanced price of ploughing, 

 both with regard to men and cattle ; the oxen 

 being every where laid afide, and horfes* 

 much more expenfive animals, ufed in their 

 (lead. It is likewife obvious, that the cuftom 

 of difufing oxen for the plough mufl have a 

 confiderable effect in augmenting the price of 

 butchers meat. 



That 



