'NORTH AMERICA. 
good wife, with her maids and fervants, were re- 
turning with it to the dairy ; the gentleman was at 
leifure to attend to my enquiries and oblervations, 
which he did with complaifance, and apparent plea- 
fure. On my obferving to him that his (lock of 
•horned cattle mud be very confiderable to afford 
fo many milch cows at one time, he anfwered, that 
he had about fifteen hundred head: £C my flock is 
but young, having lately removed from feme dis- 
tance to this place ; I found it convenient to part 
with mod of my old dock and begin here anew ; 
Heaven is pleafed to blefs my endeavours and in- 
dudry with fuccefs even beyond my own expecta- 
tions.” Yet continuing my interrogatories on this 
fubjebl: your dock I apprehend mud be very pro- 
fitable, being fo convenient to the capital and fea 
port, in affording a vad quantity of beef, butter and 
cheefe, for the market, and mud thereby contribute 
greatly towards your emolument : u yes, 1 find my 
dock of cattle very profitable, and I condantly con- 
tribute towards Supplying the markets with beef, 
but as to the articles of butter and cheefe, I make 
no more than what is expended in my own houf- 
hold, and I have a confiderable family of black 
people, who, though they are (laves, mud be fed, 
and cared for : thofe I have, were either chofen for 
their good qualities, or bom in the family, and I 
find from long experience and obfervation, that the 
better they are fed, clothed and treated, the more 
fervice and profit we may expebt to derive from 
their labour: in fhort, I find my flock produces no 
more milk, or any article of food or nourifhment, 
than what is expended to the bed advahtage a- 
mongd my family and (laves. ” 
He added, come along with me towards the ri- 
ver bank^ where I have fome men at work fquaring 
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