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“ acted otherwise.” But lie never kept his lambs beyond the year. In respect to his horses, I plainly perceived the good eiFects of the plan adopted by go­ vernment, which sends an annual committee through Denmark and Holstein, who collect shews of cattle, and adjudge prizes of twenty- five, fifty, or a hundred dollars for the best bred stallions. The candidate who has received the premium one year, is permitted to produce the same horse in the following, and he gains a second prize, if it appear, that during the intermediate time, the animal has improved, and been of service to the neighbourhood j the inhabitants of which pay, individually, to the owner of the horse such sum as they mu­ tually agree upon. The peasants, as I before observed, at a short distance from the city, find .considerable, ad­ vantage in its vicinity; but it likewise teems with ills, by teaching them luxury. The pea­ sant who goes to town for a waggon load of manure, generally returns with a little store of coffee and g in ; and custom has already