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cerates by degrees here, and becomes fmall- 

 er. For the cows, horfes, fheep, and hogs, 

 are all larger in England, though thofe 

 which are brought over are of that breed. 

 But the firft generation decreafes a little, 

 and the third and fourth is of the fame fize 

 with the cattle already common here. The 

 climate, the foil, and the food, altogether 

 contribute their mare towards producing 

 this change. 



It is remarkable that the inhabitants of 

 the country, commonly fooner acquire un- 

 derstanding, but likewife grow fooner old 

 than the people in Europe. It is nothing 

 uncommon to fee little children, giving 

 fprightly and ready anfwers to queftions that 

 are propofed to them, fo that they feem to 

 have as much understanding as old men. 

 But they do not attain to fuch an age as the 

 Europeans, and it is almoft an unheard of 

 thing, that a perfon born in this country, 

 mould live to be eighty or ninety years of 

 age. But I only fpeak of the Europeans 

 that fettled here. For the favages, or firft 

 inhabitants, frequently attained a great age, 

 though at prefent fuch examples are un- 

 common, which is chiefly attributed to the 

 great ufe of brandy, which the favages have 

 learnt of the Europeans. Thofe who are 

 born in Europe attain a greater age here, 



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