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come to be generally adopted, no perlbn 

 could be faid to want fubfiftence, while he 

 had a cow and large garden ; on the contra- 

 ry, he would find himfelf able to live more 

 comfortably, in a manner without money, 

 than he could do when confined in a large 

 city, even though he had confiderable week- 

 ly wages. How many families are main- 

 tained in Ireland with potatoes and milk a- 

 one, and in the north of Scotland in the 

 fame way ? And it ought to be particularly 

 taken notice of, that where there is the great- 

 eft quantity of milk, we always obferve the 

 people to be the moft robuft and healthy, as 

 well as of the greateft ftature. I fcarce need 

 to add, that in large towns, this article fo 

 neceflary and agreeable to the human body, 

 is almoft entirely denied, and the inhabi- 

 tants in its (lead accuftom themfelves to the 

 moft pernicious liquors. When I afked the 

 Irifh giant in Edinburgh what food he was 

 brought up with when young ? he anfwered 

 bluntly, " Milk, Sir ;" meaning cow's milk. 

 As the fubjeft of this treatife, therefore, 

 feems to be fo interefting to every individu- 

 al, it would be of great confequence to the 

 nation, that the generality of its inhabitants 

 A a a could 



