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does not feetn fufficient ; for mod of the 

 cattle, which are fold at tguebec, have no 

 meadows with Arrouo -headed graft*, on 

 which they graze. In Canada the oxen 

 draw with the horns, hut in the Englifo 

 colonies they draw with their withers, as 

 horfes do. The cows vary in colour; how- 

 ever, moft of them are either red, or 

 black. 



EVERY countryman commonly keeps a 

 few fheep, which fupply him with as much 

 wool as he wants to cloth himfelf with. 

 The better fort of clothes are brought from 

 France. The (beep degenerate here, after 

 they are brought from France^ and their 

 progeny (till more fo. The want of food 

 in winter is faid to caufe this degeneration. 



I HAVE not feen any goats in Canada^ 

 and I have been allured that there are hone. 

 I have feen but very few in the Englifh 

 colonies, and only in their towns, where 

 they are kept on account of fome fick peo- 

 ple, who drink the milk by the advice of 

 their phyiicians. 



THE harrows are triangular; two of the 

 fides are fix feet, and the third four feet 

 long. The teeth, and every other part of 

 the harrows are of wood. The teeth are 



* Triglocbin. 



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