. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. no ,v,Marck I74<). as he could remember, had already a Cuf- ficient (lock of all thefe animals. The hogs had propagated fo much at that time, there being fo great a plenty of food for them» that they ran ab
. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. no ,v,Marck I74<). as he could remember, had already a Cuf- ficient (lock of all thefe animals. The hogs had propagated fo much at that time, there being fo great a plenty of food for them» that they ran about wild in the woods, and that the people were obliged to fhoot them» when they intended to make ufe of them. The old man likewife recolledted, that horfes ran wild in the woods, in fome places ; but he could not tell whether any other kind of cattle turned Wild. He thought that the cattle grow as big at prefent as they did when he was a boy, fuppofingthey get as much food as they \vant» For in his younger years, food for all kinds of cattle was fo plentiful, and even fo fuperfluous, that the cattle were extremely well fed by it. A cow at that tinie gave more milk, than three or four do at prefent; but flie got more and better food at that time, than three or four get now ; and, as the old man faid, the fcanty allowance of grafs, which the cattle get in fummer, is really very pitiful. The caufes of this fcarcity of grafs have already been mentioned. QuERE, Whence did the EngJifh in Penfyhcnia and Nevi Jerfey get their cat- tle ? They bought them chiefly from the SweJa and Dutc/j, who lived here 3 and a fmall. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Kalm, Pehr, 1716-1779. London : Printed for the editor; and sold by T. Lowndes . ..
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