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turnips, cucumbers, chickens, ducks, geese, 

 turkeys, wheat-flour, Indian- flour, buck- 

 wheat-flour, rye-flour, chopped straw, 

 &c. 



As the keeping of horses is much more 

 expensive (as I have observed before) in 

 these climates than in England, having 

 little or no grass to grow by nature, they 

 are to feed on corn the whole year or 

 nearly, or be unfit for use ; and some days 

 are so hot that the horse cannot work, but 

 is compelled to stand to rest to get breath; 

 and in the summer they are so pestered 

 with flies, as none but those who have 

 seen the country can believe. It is com- 

 mon for gentlemen, as in England, to give 

 their horses a run in summer to soil them, 

 to cure their feet and limbs, &c. : but if a 

 horse be fat when he goes to grass, he is 

 sure to come up poor. There is one fly, 

 which, after it has remained on the horse a 

 little time, has, I think, near a tea- spoonful 

 of blood in it, when you kill it ; and it 

 makes such an incision into the outer skin. 



