iio March 1JA.9. 



as he could remember, had already a fuf- 

 ficient ftock of all thefe animals. The 

 hogs had propagated fo much at that time, 

 there being fo great a plenty of food for 

 them, that they ran about wild in the 

 woods, and that the people were obliged 

 to (hoot them, when they intended to 

 make ufe of them. The old man likewife 

 recollected, that horfes ran Wild in the 

 woods, in fome places ; but he could not 

 tell whether any other kind of cattle turned 

 wild. He thought that the cattle grow as j 

 big at prefent as they did when he was a 

 boy, fuppofingthey get as much food as they 

 want. For in his younger years, food for 

 all kinds of cattle v/as fo plentiful, and 

 even fo fuperfluous, that the cattle were 

 extremely well fed by it. A cow at that 

 time gave more milk, than three or four do' 

 at prefent 5 but fhe got more and better 

 food at that time, than three or four get 

 now ; and, as the old man faid, the fcanty 

 allowance of grafs, which the cattle get 

 in fummer, is really very pitiful. The' 

 caufes of this fcarcity of grafs have already 

 been mentioned. 



Que re, Whence did the EngJifi ifc 

 Fenfilvania and New Jerfcy get their cat- 

 tle ? They bought them ehieily from the' 

 Swedes and Dutch, who lived here; -and 



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