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no doubt the herds or the latter became the leading stock. The. 

 early English settlers of the Carolinas brought cattle with them 

 from their native land, and although numbers of the Huguenots 

 from France followed them, and probably brought French cattle 

 from Normandy, the English stock became the predominating 

 race. North, and east of New York, the first settlements were 

 mostly English, followed afterwards by a few Scotch, and 

 occasionally by Protestants from the North of Ireland, and 

 some Danes, into New Hampshire, and Maine. Thus the great 

 preponderance of the early importations of cattle were from 

 Britain, and as the Dutch colony of New York was subdued 

 and occupied by the English in the year 1664, after which the 

 New England people poured rapidly into the territory immedi- 

 ately adjoining their different settlements, we may suppose their 

 neat stock followed and became the predominating cattle of their 

 districts. Thus, the cattle of the colonies were mainly of 

 British origin. 



In a country of salubrious climate, a genial soil, in the hands 

 of industrious and pains-taking people, with an eye to thrift, 

 their neat cattle multiplied rapidly, and we may suppose, that 

 after a fifty years' settlement, they required few further importa- 

 tions. From what parts of England, or Scotland, and of what 

 particular breeds these importations were derived, judging from 

 their appearances at a later day, may become a question. We 

 have noticed the characteristics of the early Dutch cattle, and 

 even at the present day, strong resemblances to them are found 

 in some of the localities where the descendants of the settlers 

 from Holland still remain. Some inquirers have with great con- 

 fidence asserted, judging from the cleaner limbs, the red color, 

 and* activity of the working oxen of New England, that the 

 Devons were the original stock of its colonies, fortified by the 

 fact that the first settlers were from Plymouth, a city of Devon- 

 shire, on the western coast of England, the favored home of 



