TRAVELS m 
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 I was kindly faluted by my hofb and his 
wife, who I found were fuperintending a number 
of Haves, 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 (lock, 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 fhare of milk. 
Hie loofes the calf, who (trips 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 
ftrangers* to fenfibiiity, and thofe moral virtues 
which grace and ornament the mofl approved and 
admired characters in civil fociety. 
After the veffels were filled with milk, the dai- 
ly and liberal fupply of the friendly kine ; and the 
good 
