50 'January 1749. 



table ; but was forced to put it upon the 

 hearth, or into my pocket. Yet, notwith- 

 standing it was fo cold, as appears from the 

 meteorological obfervations at the end of this 

 volume, and though it fnowed fometimes for 

 feveraldays and nights together, andthefnow 

 lay near fix inches high upon the ground, yet 

 all the cattle are obliged to ftay, day and night, 

 in the fields, during the whole winter. For 

 neither the Englifo nor the Swedes had any 

 ftables 5 but the Germans and Dutch had pre- 

 ferved the cuftom of their country, and ge- 

 nerally kept their cattle in ftables during 

 winter. Almoft all the old Swedes fay, that 

 on their firft arrival in this country, they 

 made ftables for their cattle, as is ufual in 

 Sweden y but as the Engii/h came, and fettled 

 among them, and left their cattle in the 

 fields all winter, as is cuftomary in England* 

 they left off their former cuftom, and 

 adopted the Englijh one. They owned, 

 however, that the cattle fuffered greatly 

 in winter, when it was very cold, efpecially 

 when it froze after a rain ; and that fome 

 cattle were killed by it in feveral places, in 

 the long winter of the year 1741. About 

 noon, the cattle went out into the woods, 

 where there were yet fome leaves on the 

 young oak ; but they did not eat the leaves, 

 and only bit off the extremities of the 

 5 branches. 



