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economist, converts the recreation of 

 one animal to the support of another ! 

 Thomson, who was a nice observer of 

 natural occurrences, did not let this 

 pleasing circumstance escape him. He 

 says, in his Summer, 



" A various group the herds and flocks compose : 

 ■ on the grassy bank 



" Some ruminating lie ; while others stand. 

 Half in the flood, and often bending, sip 

 The circling surface." 



Wolmer-pond, so called, I suppose, for 

 eminence sake, is a vast lake for this part 

 of the world, containing, in its whole 

 circumference, 2,646 yards, or very near 

 a mile and a half. The length of the 

 north-west and opposite side is about 

 704 yards, and the breadth of the south- 

 west end about 456 yards. This mea- 

 surement, which I caused to be made 

 with good exactness, gives an area of 

 about sixty-six acres, exclusive of a large 

 irregular arm at the north-east corner. 



