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country. The method of making good artificial meadows is unknown; and the few that are to be seen, in the neighborhood of some of the cities, show by their bad arrangement and want of variety, that the Americans are yet ignorant of this important branch of agriculture.[1]
I cannot omit to say, that the horses of this country are of good stature, and of beautiful figure, but not strong, nor at all comparable to the Spanish horses in point of vigour and docility. They are of the English breed; and only in the States and Territories bordering upon Mexico and the Floridas, are they crossed with the horses of those countries, which come from the Spanish breed; but though on account of this mixture, they are stronger in those frontier States and Territories, they are very inferior to those of Andalusia.
- ↑ It is probable, that the Chevalier de Onis never saw more of the United States than was presented to his view on the publick road from New York, or perhaps from Boston, to the City of Washington. The interiors of the States of Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland, to say nothing of the others over which his road must have led him, present as great a variety of beautiful and abundant artificial meadows, as are to be found in the most highly cultivated parts of Europe. We have never before heard the complaint which the author makes against our meats, and are at a loss to conceive, where he could have found the dropsical animals of which he speaks. T.
