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An account of the European settlements in America. Containing an accurate description of their extent, climate, productions, trade, genius, and dispositions of their inhabitants, the interests of the several powers of Europe with respect to those settlements; and their political and commercial views with regard to each other / By Edmund Burke.

Edmund Burke

Date:: 1808

Credit: An account of the European settlements in America. Containing an accurate description of their extent, climate, productions, trade, genius, and dispositions of their inhabitants, the interests of the several powers of Europe with respect to those settlements; and their political and commercial views with regard to each other / By Edmund Burke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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sas then, at least these parts of it were, without almost any of those animals by which we profit so greatly. It had neither horses, nor oxen, nor sheep, nor swine. Columbus brought eight sows into America, and a small number of horned cattle. This was the stock which supplied, above two hundred years ago, a country now the most abounding in these animals of any part of the known world; in which too it has been a busi- ness, for this century past, to hunt oxen merely for their hides. An example which shews how small a number might originally have served to produce al] the animals upon earth, who com- monly procreate very fast to a certain point, and - when they arrive at it, seem much at a stand. CHAP.

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