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remembered to have feen a great foreft on the 

 fpot where Philadelphia now itands. The father 

 of this old man had been one of the Swedes who 

 were fent over from Sw^den^ in order to cultivate 

 and inhabit this country. He returned me the 

 following anfwers to the queftions I afked him. 



QUERK, Whence did the Swedes > who foil 

 came hither, get their cattle? The old man an- 

 fwered, that when he was a boy, his father and 

 other people had told him, that the Swedes 

 brought their horfes, cows, and oxen, (beep, 

 hogs, geefe, and ducks, over with them. There 

 were but few of a kind at firft, but they multi- 

 plied greatly here afterwards. He laid, that Ma- 

 ryland* New fork, New England, and Virginia* 

 had been fooner inhabited by Europeans than this 

 part of the country ; but he did not know whe- 

 ther the Swedes ever got cattle of any kind, from 

 any of thefe provinces, except from New Tork. 

 Whilft he was yet vepy young, the Swedes, as 

 well as he could remember, had already a fuffi- 

 cient Itock of all thefe animals. The hogs had 

 propagated fo much at that time, there being ib 

 great a plenty of food for them, that they ran 

 about wild in the woods, and that the people were 

 obliged to fli^ot them, when they intended to 

 make ufe of them. The old man likewife recol- 

 lected, that horfes ran wild in die woods, in ibmc 

 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 ho 

 was a boy, fuppo ling they get as much food as 

 they want, For in his younger years, food for 

 ?H kinds of cattle was ib plentiful, and even fo 

 <r fuper- 



