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ample cause for pleasure, as the public good is, or ought to be, 

 the great object of every good member of society. 



This collision of opinions on all important matters like these 

 here agitated or inquired into, must be friendly to do good, inten- 

 tions pure, and mauner kind aiid courteous. In most of the com- 

 mon atfairs of life, as well as those intimately connected with 

 science like agriculture, the best people differ much in opinion ; 

 truth is often elicited by this difference or opposition, and error 

 or falsehood disappears before its light. 



The grasses that naturally spring up and grow on high ground 

 or mountainous regions, are often the best for producing rich 

 milk and the sweetest butter. 



The highlands of Scotland are famous for the richness of their 

 milk and the high flavor of their butter. The cattle fed and 

 bred about these regions, are generally not so large, more hardy 

 and compact in their frames, fatten quick, and make delicious 

 beef, especially when removed for a short time on the luxuriant 

 pastures of the lower grounds. The cows do not give so much 

 milk as other breeds differently located, but they make up in 

 quality what they want in quantity. These high ground grasses 

 spring up naturally and mostly without cultivation j are short, 

 but juicy and nutritious; neither are they so thick on the jrround 

 as the grasses of the cultivated lands below. The grounds are 

 mostly moist and loose, get very little manure except from de- 

 cayed leaves and old wood. Hence it may be said the plants 

 that grow upon them are in a great measure the products of na- 

 ture in a wild state, and if they have not the hand of man to 

 soften and tame their wildness, they do not suffer from his mis- 

 management and errors of judgment in culture. The valleys and 

 hill sides of these regions are often made rich by nature; streams 

 flow down upon, and through tliem; springs burst out from their 

 sides, formed by rains issuing from the clouds which almost con- 

 tinually hang over and upon their summits. These carry down 

 the debris or ruins not only of rocks but of various vegetable 

 substances, and deposit Ihem on the side hills and valleys below 

 as manure, and of tlie best kind, mixed and compounded by the 



