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 domeflioating coixfinement, pf the farm-houfe in their tender years, muft have foftened their tempers with greater fuccefs and have provided for the table with .greater certainty, the original ' itock being perpetuated by a regular fucceffion, and thfe original* nature being loft in a few defcents. At a greater diftflnce.muft have been the Ipreading circuit of the meadows corn-fields and paftures. The paftures, enliven- ed with the fweepmgs of the town and the marie of the Daub- holes, inuft have^put on p fetter covering of their own native grafles, and have been more jgayly painted with their'own na- tive flowers. And the meadows .muft have heen confiderably en- riched with thp fpreign Trefoil* the one only artificial grafs of the Romans at this period ". The former muft have been filled with flocks of fheep and herds of cajttle., Here and there muft have appeared little hoyek 4*n<>ng them, | in. which fome Amba&ori ' mufLJhaye xegularly watch^ci with their attenilant maftiffs, for 1 the nightly prote&ion of both againft the inroad of the 'wolf* and;tlxe boar fronjL the neighbouring woods. And the flocks ahd r the h$rds jmift have ranged at this period all over the fite of tfreprefcnt town, have nibbled upon the flope of. the Market- ftreet-.lane, and have graced .along the courfe of Bie Smithy- door ; an4 the bleatings of the one aricl {he lowingsjof the other inqft have heen loudly returned by the ''eddying ? ecfchoe's of the J fijgrrqunding woQods "- ,. # (, ' ' .» . * » * ■•. «
 * * Pliny lib. xvili. c 6 v and 28. — VPliny lib. xi. c.'V, / Yhey

i$adc curds as well as butter of their milk ; v denfantes ih.acoreth jucundum et pingue butyrum. It is plain from Pliny's account compared with Caefar's p. 122, that the Germans are not meant by Pliny among the barbarians that were acquainted with but- ter and unacquainted with cheefe ; as it is from Herodotus (lib. iv.) that the Scythians, and from Straho (p. 233.) that the Celtse, muft be. The Spaniards (fays Strabo) ufe butter inftead of oil. — 3 Pliny ibid. — 4 Pliny lib. xxviii. c. 9. — ' Ibid. And fee alfo Columella lib. vii. c. 8. JLonga vafa angufto foramine in Pliny are evidently churns. And Pliny abfurdly derives the . aV ' word