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Travels in 
draught of cooling liquor, I betook myfelf to con- 
templation in the groves and lawns. Directing my 
fteps towards the river, I obferved in a high Pine 
foreft on the border of a favanna, a great number 
of cattle herded together, and on my nearer ap- 
proach difcovered it to be a cow pen ; on my com- 
ing up 1 was kindly faluted by my hoft and his 
wife, who I found were fupefintending a number 
of flaves, women, boys and girls, that were milk- 
ing the cows. Here were about forty milch cows 
and as many young calves ; for in thefe Southern 
countries the calves run with the cows a whole 
year, the people milking them at the fame time. 
The pen, including two or three acres of ground, 
more or lefs, according to the flock, adjoining a 
rivulet or run of water, is enclofed by a fence : in 
this enclofure the calves are kept while the cows 
are out at range : a fmall part of this pen is par- 
titioned off to receive the cows, when they come 
up at evening : here are feveral flakes drove into 
the ground, and there is a gate in the partition 
fence for a communication between the two pens. 
When the milkmaid has taken her fliare of milk ? 
fhe loofes the calf, who flrips the cow, which is 
next morning turned out again to range. 
I found thefe people, contrary to what a travel- 
ler might, perhaps, reafonably expert, from their 
occupation and remote fituation from the capital or 
any commercial town, to be civil and courteous ; 
and though educated as it were in the woods, no 
Grangers to fenfibility, and thofe moral virtues 
which grace and ornament the moil: approved and 
admired characters in civil fociety. 
After the veiTels were filled with milk, the daily 
and liberal fupply of the friendly kine j and the 
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