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In all new colonies, the great quantity of waste land, which can

for many years be applied to no other purpose but the feeding of

cattle, soon renders them extremely abundant; and in every thing

great cheapness is the necessary consequence of great abundance.

Though all the cattle of the European colonies in America were

originally carried from Europe, they soon multiplied so much

there, and became of so little value, that even horses were

allowed to run wild in the woods, without any owner thinking it

worth while to claim them. It must be a long time after the first

establishment of such colonies, before it can become profitable

to feed cattle upon the produce of cultivated land. The same

causes, therefore, the want of manure, and the disproportion

between the stock employed in cultivation and the land which it

is destined to cultivate, are likely to introduce there a system

of husbandry, not unlike that which still continues to take place

in so many parts of Scotland.