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thod has produced the mod valuable, and the 

 rnoft beautiful cattle, ever feen in England. 

 This author alfo recommends the barrel (hape 

 in cattle, with fmall bone, as the quicker! 

 feeders, in preference to depth and large 

 bone. Enquirers after truth, although they 

 may not, any more than myfelf, be precifely of 

 the fame opinion with this author, in all 

 points; will yet find their ideas expanded, and 

 the fphere of their information enlarged, by a 

 perufal of his work; which, confidering the 

 univerfal attention paid of late years to agri- 

 cultural topics among us, I wonder much has 

 not paffed through a greater number of edi- 

 tions: as to its merits in refpecl of flyle, if 

 plain, unaffected good fenfe, concifenefs and 

 perfpicuitv, are yet to be numbered among the 

 merits of a compofition, Mr. Culley's book has 

 a great deal to boall. 



After having fpoken fo fully of the authors 

 of our own country, it may be expected that I 

 fhould not be entirely filent, in regard to thofe 

 of our neighbours the French; a (hort difcuf- 

 fion, with a recurrence to facls generally 

 known and admitted, may perhaps enable me 

 to determine on which fide refls the fuperiority 

 in veterinary knowledge. The ardent, inqui- 

 fitive, penetrating genius of the French, is ever 

 puftiing them forward in fcientific purfuits. 

 France has always abounded much beyond this 



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