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tiply too faft for the fafety of other animals, inciting the hunter by 
their precious fkins, and by their mutual furioufnefs and continual 
war deftroying one another. Again : Thofe remarkable for fwift- 
nefs without ftrength \ frequent thickets, holes, and wilds, where 
they may excite the purfuit, and promote the health and activity of 
the purfuer ; even the moft inconfiderable 1 are intended to awaken 
our diligence, and teach us attention, neatnefs, and patience. Thofe 
which neither are game, nor docile and domeftic ”, afford fkins and 
furs for cloathing ; what are bred to pafture ”, afford us food and 
cloathing, and labour too ; every one, but in a different manner, 
fupplies fome want or conveniency of man, fafhioned and formed 
thereto as fervants trained up and determined to their refpeCtive 
occupations : but their faculties of mind are no lefs proportioned to 
this Fate of fubje&ion, than the fhape and properties of their bodies; 
they have knowledge peculiar to their feveral fpheres, and fufficient 
for the under-part they are to aCt. If they had more or lefs, they 
would be of lefs or no fervice to man ; they have inftinCt to feed 
themfelves, to continue their fpecies , to facilitate and reconcile 
themfelves to their labour and reft, to apply their ftrength and 
agility, and this is enough ; if they had reafon, if they had a higher 
degree of knowledge, and could compare their ideas, feleCt and 
refume by memory, and make deductions from what is paft, as 
well as forefee and anticipate what is to follow, they would be the 
plagues of mankind ; they would repine, refent, reveal, combine, 
rebell, and neither their ftrength nor fwiftnefs, neither their flefh 
for food, nor their fkins and fleeces for cloathing, would be at our 
difpofal ; their bodily powers enabling them to be matters, they 
would no longer endure their prefent neceffary and much happier 
ftate of fubordination. 
From brutes therefore, we are direCtly lead to their lord and 
matter, Man. 
CHAP. XXVI. 
Of the Inhabitants \ their Number , ufual Age , Cuftoms , Pajiimes , 
Fejlivals , Manners good and bad , Language , Tenures, Arts. 
A LTHOUGH the eaftern part of this county may not 
exceed any ordinary equal fpace in other counties folely ad- 
dicted to hufbandry, in the number of inhabitants, yet the weftern 
half, where there is tin and fifth, is extremely populous, and may 
k Hare, rabbit, fox. Sec. 
1 As rats, mice, moles, vermin, and infedts. 
TO Beavers, fable, ermins, Sec. 
n Sheep, goats, bullocks, &c. 
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