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country was very confiderablc. Now, the 

 Vale, perhaps, barely rears its own ftock. 

 A few young cattle may go out of it every 

 year; but a number of Scotch and fome 

 Irifli beads, and generally more or fewer 

 young cattle from the Tees-water quarter, are 

 annually brought into it. ' A few lean oxen, 

 (few in companion with what formerly went 

 out) and fome barren cows ; and a furplus 

 of fat cattle driven to the ports of Whitby 

 an4 Scarborough ; may be faid to be the 

 only cattle which the Vale at prefent fends 

 to market, .. . 



The caufes of this decline are the incrcafe 

 of horfes ; the increafe of tillage in the lower 

 parts of the Vale ; and the increafe of the 

 dairy upon its margins; an increafe of graz-"* 

 ing grounds in the richer parts ; and, through- 

 out, an increafe in the confumption of beef. 



This too may W fairly admitted as a cir- 

 cumftantial evidence, at leaft, of a growing 

 foarcity of cattle at prefent in thtfe king- 

 dpms. I mc:in a fcarcity comparative with i 

 the prefent confumption. 



1 fliall, in their proper places, have other 

 evidences to produce. At prefent, there- 

 fore,, I do not attempt any general conclusions. 

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