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strength and vigour, and compare the work they would perform 

 with that of animals so much exhausted that it is sometimes with 

 diflSculty they can crawl up the long ascents of this island. Let 

 them compare also the weight and value of a well-fed beast for 

 slaughter, with those miserable creatures that are sometimes sold 

 to the shipping [perhaps to save a natural death;) and they can- 

 not fail to be convinced of the superior advantages of the pro- 

 posed, over the present system of feeding cattle. 



August 16th, 1811. 



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