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London would be conveyed with facility by 

 two horfes in a cart. 



I At night the cattle are penned upon a bed 

 of trafh, colle&ed from the refufe of the canes 

 and other wafte materials of the eftate, by 

 treading upon which, and mixing it with their 

 own dung, they trample the whole into an 

 ufeful compoft for the fields. 



It neceflarily follows from fuch numbers 

 of thefe cattle being required, for the purpofe 

 of manuring the land, that a greater fupply of 

 beef and veal is raifed for the markets, and that 

 frefli provifions are more plentiful than in mod 

 of the other colonies. Of the cuftom of buy- 

 ing the veal in live quarters for the pot I 

 have already fpoken — and I may now remark 

 that the beef is too commonly killed very 

 young — forming neither beef nor veal, but a 

 fomething of flavor and appearance between 

 the two. 



The feafons here are not divided into 

 winter and fummer, but into wet and dry : 

 yet are they, by no means, what many from 

 thefe terms would believe, who might imagine 



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