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5 Pounds a piece. They never Sboe them, nor Stahle them in general;yet they Ride pretty sharply , a Planteis Pace is a Proverb,' which »a good stiarp Hand-gallop. ' The Indiam have not yet learn’d to Ride, onlythe King of Pomonkte had got 3 or 4 Horses for bis own Saddle, and anAttendant, which I think shouid m no wisc be Indulg’d, for I look on theailowing them Horses much möre Dangerous than even Guns and Powdtr.

Wild-Butts and Cows there are now in the Uninbahited Parts , but such onlyar have been Bred srom Tome that have Stray’d, and become Wild, and havePropagated their Kind, and are DiflScult to be Shot, having a great Acute-nefs pf Smelling. The Common Rate of a Ccw and a Calf is y o s. be fheBig or L’tcle: they are never very Curious to Examine that Point.

Their Sheep are of a Middling Size, pretty Fine Fleeced in general, andmost Perlons of Estate begin to keep Blocks : which hitherto has not beenmuch regarded, because of the Wolves that Dcstroy them ; so that a pieceof Mutton is a Einer Treat, than either Venifon, Wild-Gooje,Duck, Widgeon ,or Teal.

- Elkes I have heard of and there are abundance of Brave Red-Deer , so thata good Woodsman , asthey call him, will keep a House wlth Venison. TheIndians , they sey, make Artificial forts of Heads of Boughs of Trees, whichthey Consecrate to their Gods, and these they put on to deceive the Deer whenthey go a Shooting or Hmting, as they call it, and by Miniiking the Feedingof the Deer, they by degrees get within Shot.

Swine they have now in great Abundance: Shoats, or Porkrels are theirGeneral Food ; and I believe as good as any Wefiphalia, certainly far cx- :ceeding our Enghßn 1 '

Rackoon ; I take it to be a Species of a- Monkey , something lesi than aFox, Gray-Hair’d, its feet form’d like a Hand, and the Fäce toö has likeWisothe resem blance of a Monkie’s: besides, being kcpt Tarne, they afe verjTApißi They are very prejudicial to their Poultrj, as I remember. • 1 - ^An Opojjom, as big, and something fhaped like our Balgen, but of aLighter • Dun-Colour , .with a long Tail something like a Rat, but asThick'as aMan’sThumb. The Skin ofits Belly is very 'Large, and Folded, so as -to meet like a Purfi , wherein they secure their Young whilst Littl'e and Ten-der, which will asNaturally run thither, as Chickens to a Hen : In these 1Ealfe Eelties they will carry their Yottng. They Feed on, and Devour

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Hares ; many will have them to be a HeAge-Rabbet, but I know not what'they mean thereby . I take them to be a perfect Species oF Hares, because I •have seen Lever ets there with the Wbite Spots in the Head, which the OldOlles have not, so it is in England ; and the Down is perfectly of the Co-lour of our Hares-, they Sit as our Hans do, and make no Holes and Eur-'' 1rows in the Earth. True, they are but about the Bigness of an EnglißiRobbet , and Run noFaster: they generally take into some Hollow-Treewithin a little space •, which then the People catch by gathering the Wi-ther’d Leaves, and sctting them on Fire Mithin the Hollow of the Tree,Vol. III. G g g g and'