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Though it is late, therefore, in the progress of improvement,

before cattle can bring such a price as to render it profitable

to cultivate land for the sake of feeding them; yet of all the

different parts which compose this second sort of rude produce,

they are perhaps the first which bring this price; because, till

they bring it, it seems impossible that improvement can be

brought near even to that degree of perfection to which it has

arrived in many parts of Europe.