AGRICULTURE. 323 as much as they do the better kind of hogs ; and when, as they generally are, left during summer to range uncontrolled through the woods, they are as wild and swift as foxes. The horses are, with few exceptions, small, and capable of performing long journeys, and enduring great fatigue, with much spirit. During summer, it is usual to take them off the grass, and ride them the same day thirty or forty miles without feeding, fre¬ quently on bad roads, then turn them loose to feed on grass during night, and ride them back on the following day: all this is performed frequently with¬ out apparent injury to the animal. The old Canadian breed, originally from Normandy, are the hardiest horses, and seem as if formed for the severe usage they undergo. Their owners take them almost every week during winter to Charlotte Town , twenty or thirty miles, and leave them tied, often without food, to a post or fence for several hours, and return home with them the same night ; the horse hungry and sober, but the master rarely in the latter state. I have been told by an old Acadian Frenchman, that for several years after the conquest of the island, a vast number of horses were running in a wild state about the eastern parts. Such horses as are taken good care of, and have been trained, make very agreeable saddle, or carriage horses. The breed is likely now to improve fast, from those introduced by Colonel Ready , the present governor; and this may be said of horned cattle, sheep, and hogs ; for, when last on the island, in 1828, I was astonished at the