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These authorities experimentally strengthen and cor- 

 roborate the Author's opinion, that horses and cattle 

 would receive more benefit, by the grain they are fed with 

 being previously converted into saccharine matter (as is 

 the case with malted gram) than by being fed with raw 

 grain, containing no suck sweet or saccharine matter: the 

 expence of malting, exclusively of the duty, is but a trifle, 

 not exceeding sixteen-pence per quarter. 



The duties on malt, used for brewing and distilling 

 should not be allowed to deprive working horses and 

 cattle of their share of the sweets and comforts of life, 

 not only enjoyed by the negroes in the West Indies, but 

 by the pigs, poultry, horses, oxen, and mules, whose 

 festive l)oard, and solatium^ (from the said to be slavery 

 and miseries of life) hnjjpens only annually) while the 

 Author of more extensive benevolence wishes that the 

 sweets of life shall in this country be administered daily to. 

 all these animals. 



Convincing as experiments may be, and the arguments 

 in favour of procuring to rattle in this country a substi^ 

 tute for the sweets of the West Indies, stilj, from the too 



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