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thirty miles, by land ; and this- while, ta 

 common appearance, there are a fufficient 

 num.ber of Fowls kept, within ten miles 

 of it, to fi.ipply all its wants of this article. 



This circumftance did not ftrike me, 

 until I had fpent fome time in Scotland ; 

 where, from ,no greater appearance of 

 Fowls, the quantity of Eggs confumed in 

 the country, and the extraordinary quantity 

 fent, efpecially fi'om Berwick, to the 

 London market, is almofl: incredible. 



Thefe extraordinary fa(Sts led me to a 

 clofer inveftigation of this fuhjeft, than I 

 had, theretofore, thought it entitled to ; 

 and it evidently appears, that the whole 

 difparity of, produce may be traced to a 

 difparity of management, 



In Scotland, Fowls in general roofl in the 

 warm iinokey cottages of their owners ; 

 ^re nurtured, and forced in a hot houfe, 

 The confequence is, they produce Eggs in 

 every feafon } and, generally fpeaking, the 

 year round. The Gentlemen of Scotland, 

 feeing the fuperiority of the Cottage Fowls, 

 in their produiftivenefs of Eggs, have re^ 

 moved the comparative flerility of their 



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