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 In the ladies, however, Geoffrey will undoubtedly find warm advocates. Those lovely creatures, who delight so much in the propagation of their own beautiful species, will ever support the Animal System in preference to the Vegetable; nor waste their precious time and consideration on a carrot, which may be so much better employed in furnishing a cradle.

And whilst the frantic farmers that furnish their stuff for the Annals of Agriculture, shall be puzzling their brains to preserve a ragged flock of sheep from the rot, the fair sex shall be more nobly employed in the preservation of beauty, and what is more puzzling, though we daily see it attempted—the preservation of even The Human Face Divine, itself.

Emboldened by these considerations, that the Annals of Horsemanship will speedily drive the Annals of Agriculture out of the house of every man and woman of taste