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CATTLE. 



sleet. They are rarely more than four feet high at the withers, and 

 sometimes scarcely more than thirty-five or forty pounds a quarter. 



The Shetland cattle contrive to live on their native moors and 

 wastes, and some of tliem fatten there ; for a considerable and in- 

 creasing quantity of beef is salted in Shetland and sent to the main- 

 land, the quality of which is exceedingly good. When, however, the 

 Shetlanders are transported to the comparatively richer pastures of 

 the north of Scotland, they thrive with almost incredible rapidity, 

 and their flesh and fat, being so newly and quickly laid on, is said to 

 be peculiarly delicious and tender. They run to fifteen or sixteen, 

 or even twenty stones in weight. If they are carried still farther 

 south they rarely thrive ; they become sickly, and even poor, in the 

 midst of abundance : the change is too great, and the constitution 

 cannot become habituated to it. 



ABERDEENSHIRE. 



This extensive county breeds or grazes more cattle than any other 

 of Scotland, The cattle in Aberdeenshire have been calculated at 

 110,000. More than 20,000 are slaughtered, or sold to the grazieis, 

 every year. 



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