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oa whatever cause; the sa nan ose ee and. ntin pork, unusually white, the flesh hard, and of a pe-

culiarly disagreeable scent and flavor, resembling, nase if I could compare it to any thing, those of fennel. te or in The characters of good flesh, liying or dead, are a

waxey firmness, elasticity, and mellowness, which|

> expres admit not the idea of hard, or harsh. i Common THE DISTINCTIVE QUALITIES of animals, generic| am, or or specific, are, doubtless, in certain essentials, un- i inherent, changeable and everlasting. As to those of genus,} ly cone. there is no question; it is now too late in the day," t this lt to cram aman to the degree of inducing him to: with fat. believe, that a horse, by virtue of short and poor: aturally herbage, may be degenerated into an ass, and in; fen oc. due time acquire a swinging pair of characteristic; 1 flesh ears, and an harmonious bray: but respecting the 1d that specific distinctions, or those which subsist in the; veal different species of the same kind, people have not‘| Arai so well made up theirmind. On this head, I re- iy beth collect with pleasure, the many amicable sparrings iy nit of I have had, with an ingenious and intelligent friend,| ahi: who has occasionally sent West-country boars and 4 ly tis. SOWS into Essex and Suffolk, the produce of which|; pets have invariably become. completely Essexized and} ae Suffolkized, ina few years. Nor can Tyet persuade; vn my friend, that an inter-copulation with the Essex/ and Suffolk stock, rather than any influence of soil t C and climate, has effected this miracle. Dependence i a on the care of the. good folks of the country, to on keep the boars and sows from intermixture, through i a considerable length of time, is no very strong ft ground of argument, There from atevet