PART II. 



CHAPTER THE FIRST. 



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SECTION I. 



C O WS. 



JL H E great variety of foil in this county, and the confe- 

 quent difference of herbage in a very fmall fpace, has 

 doiibtlefs contributed very largely to that intermixture of 

 breeds among the iheep and cow cattle, with which the 

 primeil of the grafs lands through the county are generally 

 depaftured: but though this obfervation applies to the county 

 at large, it does not extend locally, and through thofe par- 

 ticular diftrids, where the herbage, from time immemorial 

 to the prefent period, has neither degenerated or improved, 

 and where, without queftion, the paftures employed for 

 particular purpofcs, would favour the breed of one fpecies 

 of flock, rather than that of another. 



That thefe matters have hitherto been too much difregarded 

 is plain, for in the richefl. and moft luxuriant paflures, are 

 too frequently found, an aflemblage of the refufe flock, and 

 cullings of the adjacent, the northern, and weftern counties 

 of the kingdom. 



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