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The hide of a bullock (6f fome breeds) is 

 not worth more than one-twentieth of his 

 carcafe. The fkin of a fheep may, in full 

 wool, be worth from a fixth to a tenth of its 

 carcafe. But the fur of a rabbit is worth 

 twice the whole value of the carcafe : there- 

 fore, fuppofing the rabbit to confume a 

 quantity of food in proportion to its carcafe, 

 jt is, oa the principle offered, a fpecies of 

 flock nearly three fixes as valuable as either 

 cattle or flieep. 



This theory is ftrongly corroborated by an 

 incident of practice. One of the warrens of 

 this Diftrict contains eighteen hundred acres 

 of furface ; moft of it covered with a black 

 moreland foil ; part of it a barren dead gra- 

 vel ; fome little of it a thin limeftone loam ; 

 not worth perhaps, on a par, for the common 

 purpofes cf hujlandry, a fhilling an acre; ne- 

 verthelefs, thefe eighteen hundred acres are 

 let, as a rabbit -warren, for three hundred 

 pounds a-year ! 



\ will not pretend to fay that the warren 

 here alluded to is worth three hundred pounds 

 a-year, nor aflert that it is not worth a fhil- 



