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tity of cattle that appear from the lateft calculation 
to have been confumed in our metropolis, is a fuf- 
ficient arcument of the vaft plenty of thefe times ; 
particularly when we confider the great advance- 
ment of tillage, and the numberlefs variety of pro- 
vifions, unknown to paft ages, that are now intro- 
duced into thefe kingdoms from all parts of the 
world *. 
Our breed of horned cattle has in general been fo 
much improved by a foreign mixture, that it is dif- 
ficult to point out the original kind of thefe 
iflands. Thofe which may be fuppofed to have 
been purely Briti/h are far inferior in fize to thofe 
on the northern part of the European continent: 
the cattle of the highlands of Scotland are exceed- 
ing fmall, and many of them, males as well as fe- 
males, are hornlefs: the Wel runts are much 
larger: the black cattle of Cornwall are of the fame 
fize with the laft. The large fpecies that is now 
cultivated through moft parts of Great-Britain are 
either entirely. of foreign extraction, or our own 
improved by acrofs with the foreign kind. The 
Lincolnfoire kind derive their fize from the Holftein 
* That inguifitive and accurate hiftorian Maztland furnithes 
us with this table of the quantity of cattle that were con- 
- fumed in Loudon above 30 years ago, when that city was far 
-lefs populous than it is at prefent. - 
Beeves 93,244. Pigs 52,000. 
Calves 194,700. _ Sheep ed 
Hogs 136,932. Lambs 
C 3 breed ; 
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