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are of this defcription : — but the droves are 

 generally adulterated with a mongrel fort; — 

 the produce of a crofs with the iong-horned 

 breed. 



This fpecies of adultery is fald to be com- 

 mitted and encouraged by the nobility and 

 landed gentlemen of the countries they are 

 bred in ; but the fa6l appears to be, that they 

 have already one of the iinefl breed of cattle 

 in the world upon their eftates ; and it behoves 

 them to hand it down to pofterity as pure at 

 leaft as they received it. In this age of im- 

 provement, it might be laudable to endea- 

 vour to improve it to the utmoft : not, 

 however, by foreign admixtures-, but by 

 giving the mod beautiful females to the 

 moll beautiful males of their own breed. 

 They appear to me to have much to lofe, 

 but nothing to gain, from croffing, — not even 

 witli the prefent long- horned breed of the 

 midland counties. 



This fpecies of Scotch cattle appears to be 



originally of the county of Galloway, which 



forms the fouthern extremity of Scotland ; 



but they are now, it is faid, propagated in other 



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