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caufe of it. I need not, furely, add, that 

 . this, or indeed any other reafon that can 

 be offered, is and muil be falfe and incom- 

 plete ; and that the ufe of them in tillage is 

 much fuperior to that of hones. The ava- 

 rice of the farmers (it is obfervable among 

 the great farmers in Northumberland, who, 

 we are certain, are not poor, oxen yet con- 

 tinue to be much ufed, viz. half and half,) 

 has alone driven them out of ufe, not for 

 the fake of profit, but for railing ready 

 money at a future expence. 



Several modern French authors, of con- 

 siderable abilities, have attacked the ufe 

 of oxen with all their power ; particularly 

 the celebrated Marquis de Mirabeau, and 

 the authors of the huibandry articles in the 

 'Encyclopedia ; I think M. Quefnay le Jils, 

 and M. le Roy. They divide the agricul- 

 ture of France into two grand parts ; the 

 great culture, and the fmalL The firft is 

 that of horfes, and the latter of oxen; 

 and reckon the fmall to exceed the great 

 culture, in common practice, as five, if I 

 recoiled: right, to thirty. They reprefent 

 the ufe of oxen as vattly inferior to that of 

 horfes; but their arguments run directly 

 counter to all ones ideas in England; con- 

 fequently circumitances vary prodigioully 

 between the two kingdoms. But the prin- 

 cipal 



