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abundance, of course, than the other sorts, 

 which are inferiour in size. A Cow may be 

 compared to a sum of money, from which a 

 man may take continually without diminishing 

 his' store ; for the carcass we may call the 

 principal, and the milk and calves the interest. 

 There is, indeed, this difference in favour of 

 the animal as property, that she will yield in a 

 year, perhaps, twice the value of her purchase 

 and food ; whilst the same sum in money will 

 not generally yield in the public funds much 

 more than a twentieth part of its own amount 

 as interest. 



In enumerating the uses to which the body 

 of this creature is applicable, we must reckon 

 up all the different substances of which it is 

 composed: the flesh, the fat, the intestines, 

 the blood, the bones, the skin, the hair, the 

 hoofs, the horns. For the use of the flesh, or 



