MISFORTUNES. 47 



20,000 acres that surrounded it, and had 

 commended himself to the tenantry by 

 the introduction of a Spanish boar, that 

 has been the means of a great improve- 

 ment in the porcine breed in that vici- 

 nity, and has tended as much to im- 

 mortalize the name of William Gauntlett, 

 Esq., as has his arduous services in 

 the war in Portugal and Spain. 



Thus did my agricultural investment 

 receive a deadly blow from the effects 

 of this unpropitious season, which was 

 most severely felt by others besides my- 

 self ; and thus was my injudicious spe- 

 culation in blood-stock blighted in the 

 bud ; and though my practice was but 

 short, experience has since led me to 

 believe that the breeding and rearing 

 such expensive animals is incompatible 

 with the more legitimate pursuits of the 

 practical farmer. 



In the first place, it is very rare any 



