6 BREEDING. 



how admirably gifted by nature those coiin* 

 ties are with requisite advantages, that othe^r 

 parts of England have not to boast ; nor 

 can they, from locality qi situation, ever 

 obtain. 



Situate as the inhabitants are for these con- 

 veniencies, they have consequently dedicated 

 more time and attention totlie improvement 

 of the species in general, for the purposes 

 of emolument, than the natives of most 

 other counties, where the attempt (however 

 judiciously made) becomes in some degree 

 abortive, not only in respect to the deceptive 

 expectation of profit, but a certain degene- 

 racy from sucii heterogeneous imions (if I may 

 be allowed the expression) as will be hereafter 

 more clearly explained. 



Customs and opinions upon this subject 

 are both local and numerous, notwithstand- 

 ing which tl^ey are frequently subservient to 

 exigence of circumstances, and become pro- 

 ductive of a propagation calculated for little 

 more than a consumption of food, without a 

 single prominent or distinguishing mark of 

 blood, strength, or utility. 



