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pally fold to jobbers, or graziers, from this 

 Somerfetfliire fide of the county. 



Thus a calf, dropt in the dairy DiftricSl 

 of Eafi Devonfhire or Dorfetlhire, may 

 be nurfe4 at the foot of Dartmore, and 

 reared on its hills ; worked in Weft De- 

 vonfhire or its environs j and driven back, 

 through his native country, to be iinifhed 

 QHrtha marfhes cf Somprfetfliire, for the 

 London market. 



IV. FATTING CATTLE. A por- 

 tion, however, of the cattle reared in this 

 country are fatted in it, or rather brought 

 forward iji fiefh, for its own- confumption. 

 I did not fee what in Smithneid would be 

 called a fat bullock, in the country ; except 

 . .fome two or three which were finifhed, by 

 . a fpiriteditidividual, with the commendable 

 view of appearing at the head of his pro- 

 feflion, both as a grazier and a butcher ; 

 "and his praifeworthy exertions fhowed, 

 plainly, what the cattle of Devonfhire are 

 capable of, under judicious and fpiritpd 

 managen^ent, 

 ■ We(v Devonfliire, however, is not a 



grazing 



