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Canada, and throughout the many ancient French seignories in 

 large numbers, forming their principal stock of neat cattle. 

 They proved excellent mUijers, hardy, easy of keep, and profit- 

 able for the dairy. They are also tolerable for the yoke, and 

 for beef. In their remote distance, and limited intercourse with 

 the people of the English colonies, it is not probable that their 

 herds became intermixed. We have no accounts of the kind, and 

 the peculiar characteristics of the cattle now there, after nearly 

 two hundred years of acclimation and breeding, show no rela- 

 tions with the New England stock of our Northern States. 



