lio March 1749. 



as he could remember, had already a fuf- 

 ficient flock of all thefe animals. The 

 hogs had propagated fo much at that time, 

 there being fo great a plenty of food fof 

 them, that they ran about wild in the 

 woods, and that the people were obliged 

 to fhoot them, when they intended to 

 make ufe of them. The old man likewife 

 recollected, that horfes ran wild in the 

 woods, in fome places ; but he could not 

 tell whether any other kind of cattle turned 

 wild. He thought that the cattle grow as 

 big at prefent as they did when he was a 

 boy, fuppofingthey get as much food as they 

 want. For in his younger years, food for 

 all kinds of cattle was fo plentiful, and 

 even fo fuperfluous, that the cattle were 

 extremely Well fed by it. A cow at that 

 tune gave more milk, than three or four do 

 at prefent j but fhe got more and better 

 food at that time, than three or four get 

 now ; and, as the old man faid, the fcanty 

 allowance of grafs, which the cattle g^t 

 in fummer, is really very pitiful. The 

 caufes of this fcarcity of grafs have already 

 been mentioned. 



Que re, Whence did the Englifi id 

 Pexfyhama and New Jerfey get their cat- 

 tle ? They bought them chiefly from the 

 Swedes and Dutch, who lived here; and 



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