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of New York will benefit themselves by introducing them. 

 The one is remarkable for lack of dairy produce, and the 

 other for inferior quality of mutton ; and both for being unpro 

 fitable, unless liberally supplied at all seasons with nutritious 

 food. The population of the country cannot well dispense 

 with any part of their present dairy produce, and do not 

 require an increase of quantity at a sacrifice of quality of 

 mutton, while the present state of agriculture does not furnish 

 a sufficiency of food for the health and growth of short-horns 

 and Leicesters during winter. I imagine smaller and more 

 hardy breeds, of both kinds of stock, will be found more pro 

 fitable for general purposes. 



During my residence at New York, I attended the cattle 

 market, which was stored with moderately fatted cattle, many 

 of which had been worked. I also witnessed a herd of two hun 

 dred passing along the streets, said to have come from the 

 state of Kentucky, forming part of four thousand which had 

 been bought by one company, and brought forward in weekly 

 supplies. They bore some resemblance to the Hereford 

 cattle of England were four and five years old, of excellent 

 quality, and were estimated to average eighty stones dead 

 weight, of 14 Ibs. to the stone. 



The scenery of the Hudson did not realize my expectations 

 on first view, an occurrence which frequently takes place 

 when much has previously been heard in praise of objects. 

 Every person of observation must have remarked how different 

 scenery appears under a change of circumstances. The wea 

 ther being cold and raw during the passage, affected, perhaps, 

 my feelings ; and it was not until the objects had been seen a 

 second time in the beginning of November, that I became 

 sensible of their beauties. The Palisadoes, a line of rocks 

 extending for twenty miles on the west side of the river on 

 leaving New York, are of moderate height, with their base 

 covered with stunted trees, and convey nothing of the sublime 

 to the beholder. The objects became more interesting on ap 

 proaching the high lands where Anthony s nose is situated, 

 and forms the most prominent and beautiful feature. The 

 channel of the river seems to have been produced by a mighty 

 convulsion ; the banks being destitute of soil, and the islands 



