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rally do), no matter whether fhort or long, 

 fharp or clubbed, rifing or falling; andfup- 

 pofing a variety to be eftabliihed from this 

 parentage, it is highly probable that the 

 horns of the parents would continue for a 

 while to be character iftic of the true breed, 

 and might by inferior judges be depended 

 upon, in fome degree, as a criterion. 



But it is indifputable that horns remain 

 the fame, while the flefh and fatting quality 

 change ; and every man of fuperior judge- 

 tnent will depend more upon the form and 

 handle of the carcafe, than upon the length 

 and turn of the horn. For it is a notorious 

 fact, 'that the individuals of a given variety 

 may have exactly the fame horns, without 

 having exaflly either the fame fafhion or the 

 fame flelh. 



If there be any criterion or point of a beait 

 which may be miner/ally depended upon as a 

 guide to the grazier, it is the EYE, not the 

 horn. The eye is a mirror in which the 

 health and habit of the animal at haft may be 

 feen'with a degree of certainty. 



II. Cows, 



