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28. 



RABBITS. 



r OBSERVED only one Rabbit Warren 

 in this Diilrid:, which is now flocked > 

 with a fmall one, that has been difwarrened. 

 Neverthelefs, there appears to me to be 

 much land in the Weft of Devonfliire, &c. 

 which would pay better in a ftate of Rabbit 

 warren, than in any other flate of occu- 

 pancy. 1 mean the higher weaker lands, 

 and where the fides of the hills have a 

 fufficiency of loofe rubble for the Rabbits 

 to burrow in. The markets of Plymouth, 

 and its Dock, would not fail to take off the 

 produce. 



An objedlion to Rabbits, in or near the 

 inclofed country, lies in their being de- 

 flrudiive to the large hedge mounds of this 

 Diftridt ; in which they burrow, and be- 

 come a fpecies of vermin, difficult to ex- 

 tirpate ; 



