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dollars for heifers, at year-olds: but they 

 not at all liked. The butchers will not buy 

 a calf of that kind, if they know it: they 

 complain of the flesh being coarse and black. 

 They were not of the best sort when first 

 imported ; nor do I believe they would 

 answer in that hot climate, and poor soil. 

 I think them an improper animal for Ame- 

 rica. I went to a show of Mr. Cough's, 

 of cattle, and horses of the blood kind ; and 

 he had some hogs of the Chinese breed. 

 This was at Perry-Hall, fourteen miles from 

 Baltimore. He has great conveniences for 

 cattle in the winter, only improperly con- 

 structed. He has a very large tract of land 

 under cultivation, chiefly Indian corn and 

 rye, with some clover. He has paid great 

 attention to cultivation, and to his cattle and 

 horses : but he is said to be very poor in 

 money, like all cultivators of soil in Ameri- 

 ca, although this gentleman had an uncle 

 who died in England, and left him sixty 

 thousand pounds sterling to realise this 

 property in the beginning, I do not know 







