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of its great popu-

t ployed than in anv county The draught horſfes to be feen in the ſtreets of this city are, univerſally allowed to be the fineſt in the produce of any particular

†havV mn ⸗ but thev are not the produ

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En being ranſacked by the

diſtrict, the whole o dealers, and the higheſt prices given for horſes of ſtren and figure, for the dray-work of the metropolis. value of land in this county is fuch, as to exclude every idea of breeding either cattle or horſes, as an article of profit. Some of the Middleſex breed ſome horſes on their own grounds, and contend

that they live longer, and do more work, than any they

farmers, however, do

can purchaſe.

Sheep. There are not many ſheep bred, or fed in Middle- ſex. Some are to be ſeen on Hounſlow-heath; but they are ſuch pitifal ſtarved-looking animals, as hardly to de- ſerve notice, except merely for the purpoſe of remarking, to what better purpoſes the ground might be devoted. As theſe fheep are very apt, from neglect, and miſmanage- ment, to die of the rot, and other diſorders, this is an ad- ditional argument, for incloſing ſuch commons, as in general they prove injurious, even to thoſe, for whoſe ſup- poſed intereſts, they are kept in their preſent miſerable ſtate. In ſome pariſhes, it is the cuſtom, as ſoon as the

cattle are off the grounds, to ſtock them with ſheep, which they

remarks and additional

1— Öbiervations.