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mels and dromedaries, but the finest and best horses upon earth.

Hills, downs, and high-lands, produce a small or middle-sized, and lively breed of animals; having small and hard bones, firm, finely-grained flesh, in- clining to the wild, or venison flavour, and abounding with the celebrated black gravy. This species is obviously proper to be purchased for situations where the keep is not very abundant; and they will also thrive in good keep, to a pitch of fatness they never attain upon their native downs, and their breed is susceptible of great im- provement in bone and size, but, probably, with the loss of a considerable share of the original fla vour of the flesh, unless, indeed, that could be retained, by the cultivation and use of the down grasses.

Low country pastures and marshes, affording a full bite of rich and rank grass, make large, boney and fleshy cattle; their flesh, generally of a paler or more florid red, than that of upland cattle, and, the gravy fatter, and of lighter colour. Our gravy connoisseurs have not yet determined the precise cause of the difference which subsists in the colour, consistence, and flavour of the beef and mutton juices, or whether it ought to be attributed to the age, species, or food of the animal. Low-land stock is apt to over-top the mark, in point of size; its flesh to become coarse-grained and insipid, and to lose in favour and nutritive power, as it gains in weight. It wil immediately occur to all, that large and bulky animals like these, can never be

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