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fore the other in their carts, which has 

 probably occaiioned the docking of their 

 tails, as the horfes would hurt the eyes of 

 thofe behind them, by moving their tails 

 backwards and forwards. The governor- 

 general, and a few of the chief people in 

 town, have coaches, the reli make ufe of 

 open horie-chairs. It is a general com- 

 plaint, that the country people begin to 

 keep too many horfe?, by which means 

 the cows are kept ihon of food in wiiiter. 

 The cows have likewife been imported 

 from France, and are of the fize of our 

 common Swedijh cows. Every body agreed 

 that the cattle, which were born of the 

 original French breed, never grow up to 

 the fame fize. This they afcribe to the 

 cold winters, during which they are oblig- 

 ed to put their cattle into ftables, and give 

 them but little food. Almofl all the cows 

 have horns, a fev/, however, 1 have ifL^xi 

 without them. A cow without horns 

 would be reckoned an unheard of curio- 

 lity in Pefifyhania, Is not this to be at- 

 tributed to the cold ? The cows give as 

 much milk here as in France. The beef 

 and veal at ^ebecy is reckoned fatter and 

 more palatable than at Montreal. Some 

 look upon the falty p^dures below ^lebec, 

 ^s the caufe of this difference. But this 



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