6* July 1749. 



fuccefsfully in agriculture. With this view 

 fome have repeatedly got young wild calves, 

 and brought them up in Quebec* and other 

 places, among the tame cattle ; but they 

 commonly died in three or four years time ; 

 and though they have feen people every day, 

 yet they have always retained a natural fero- 

 city. They have conftantly been very fliy, 

 pricked up their ears at the fight of a 

 man, and trembled, or run about ; fb 

 that the art of taming them has not hi- 

 therto been found out. Some have been 

 of opinion, that thefe cattle cannot well 

 bear the cold ; as they never go north of 

 the place I mentioned, though the fummers 

 be very hot, even in thofe northern parts. 

 They think that, when the country about 

 the Illinois will be better peopled, it will be 

 more eafy to tame thefe cattle, and that 

 afterwards they might more eafily be ufed 

 to the northerly climates *. The Indians' 

 and French in Ganada> make ufe of the 

 horns of thefe creatures to put gun-powder 

 in. I have briefly mentioned the wild cat- 

 tle in the former parts of this journey -f-. 



THE 



* But by this means they wonld loofe that fuperiority, 

 which in their wild flate they have over the tame cattle ; 

 as all the progenies of tamed animals degenerate from the 

 excellence of their wild and free anceftors, F. 



f See Vol. I. p. 207. 



