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Britain cannot be less than and, at a duty of 



five shillings on each horse, mare, or gelding, the whole 

 would amount to £ 



As to the neat cattle in Britain, their numbers may be 

 ascertained, with tolerable precision, according to the fol- 

 lowing calculation. 



There are said to be slaughtered annually in Londoa 

 and its neighbourhood, thousand heads of cat- 



tle ; and as its population is reckoned to be one eighth of 

 the whole kingdom, but say one ninth, the number of 

 beeves slaughtered annually in Britain should amount to 

 from which one third is to be deduced, from 

 the greater proportional consumption and waste of ani- 

 mal food in the metropolis. The total number of beeves 

 slaughtered would therefore be which mul- 



tiplied by four (sooner than which age, cattle are never 

 brought to market) the total number of cattle of all de- 

 scriptions, at one time in the kingdom, will amount to 

 which at a duty of is. per head, for per- 

 mission to supply them, when necessary, with malted 



grain, 



• Thr V;i, ■ s hiive been left to be filled up by the reader, with a view tu bemre 

 a Lt i Lc.ition on his pan to the subject, and from a dcbiic to ihun 



.. ^f.orc of toj^iiica or calculations.. 



