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RABBITS. 



SECTION XV. 



Rabbits. 



RABBITS are animals proper to be allowed in a wild 

 state, in those countries only, where are extensive 

 wastes, and where corn and other farming produc- 

 tions are not at a high price : in populous and highly 

 cultivated regions, they are a great and wasteful 

 nuisance, and proofs are before the public, only a 

 few years old, of nearly the whole produce of a farm 

 being devoured by them, to the ruin of the tenant. 

 This farm was situated in the vicinity of extensive 



