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Hill with Rabbets, and it will answer our End, aswell as the Level: They have chiefly their Abodeunder Ground, and, according to the Depthand Variety of Turnings they possess, may in-habit perhaps the space of three or four Surfaces jwhich, besides their prolifick Quality, bringsuddain Profit. Indeed we must suppose, that themore Rabbets are in a Warren, so much the moreFood they require; but then, as I observ’d be-fore, we find that they only prey upon such com-mon Weeds as one would chuse to destroy inother Cases, if they are left to their Choice; and5 tis likewise observable, that when they havehilly Ground to make their Beds or Burrows in,they rarely spoil the low Lands or Plains.

If this be allow'd, I am next to observe thatthe Profit arising from every Acre on the Sides.,of the Hill, by this Means, will amount tomore than it would do if Plants could growthere obliquely like the Thorns or Spines on theBody of an Hedgehog; but I think I have al-ready prov’d that Plants must grow upright.

While I am upon this Head I shall take No-tice of something extraordinary relating- to aWarren, as it was contriv’d and practis'd by thelate Lady Bellasis at Kensington . Her Ladyship,among many other Curiosities which were culti-vated in her Gardens, andVolaries, difpos’done Part for the breeding and feeding of Rab-bets , in such a Manner, as that, by a constantSupply 0 f nourishing Food, she might draw atany Time of the Year a sufficient Quantity tooblige her Friends, and serve her Table; butto prevent the unsavoury Taste which generallyattends the Flesh of tame Rabbets, consulted asmuch as possible the Nature of the wild Sort,how much the open Air was beneficial to them :

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