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not to have been prescribed in vain, bat 
adapted to the different soils upon which 
they are found. We cannot but lament a 
rage which prevails in several counties for 
destroying their peculiar breeds, and intro-- 
duciiiff the South Down and New Leicester, 
upon the mere example or suggestions of 
those persons who, it is feared, have not 
made sufficient experiments of the compa- 
rative value of either. 
/ 
""'land valuers, 
COMMONLY CALLED 
SURVEYORS. 
The office of a Land ‘Surveyor was for- 
merly confined to the geometrical operations 
.of admeasuring and planning landed pro- 
perty ; in the present age a tribe of men have 
sprung up, who have united with that office 
a kind of mysterious juggling art, in ascer- 
taining the value of land, commonly known 
' by an appellation, not very inaptly called 
‘ land tasting.^ In the country it is assumed 
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