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banish these, wherever they are found; and 

 every addition a country receives from art, drives 

 away those animals that are only fitted for a state 

 of nature. 



Of all quadrupeds, the cow seems most liable 

 to alteration from its pasture. In the different 

 parts of our own country, we easily perceive the 

 great varieties produced among these animals, by 

 the richness or poverty of the soil. In some they 

 grow to a great bulk; and I have seen an ox 

 sixteen hands high, which is taller than the gene- 

 ral run of our horses. In others they appear as 

 diminutive, being not so large as an ass. The 

 breed of the Isle of Man, and most parts of Scot- 

 land, is much less in general than in England 

 or Ireland ; they are differently shaped also, the 

 dewlap being much smaller, and, as the expression 

 is, the beast has more of the ewe neck. This, 

 till some years ago, was considered in cattle as a 

 deformity; and the cow was chosen, according 

 to Virgil's direction, with a large dewlap : how- 

 ever, at present it is the universal opinion that 

 the cow wants in udder what it has in neck, and 

 the larger the dewlap, the smaller is the quantity 

 of its milk. Our graziers now, therefore, en- 

 deavour to mix the two breeds, the large Holstein 

 with the small northern ; and from both results 

 that fine milch breed, which excels the cattle of 

 any other part of the world. 



This difference, arising from pasture, is more 

 observable in other countries than in our own. 

 The cow kind is to be found in almost every part 

 of the world, large in proportion to the richness 



