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only the most current. A Dram is a draught of rum 

 or other brandy ; a Sling equal parts of rum and 

 water; Grogg water with a fourth, fifth, or sixth 

 part of rum ; the commonest drink Toddy water 

 with rum and sugar; Punch water, rum, sugar, and 

 lemon-juice; a Flipp a warm drink of strong beer, 

 with rum and sugar ; a Doctor fresh-drawn milk with 

 rum ; Egg-dram, Egg-toddy yelk of eggs beaten up 

 with sugar and rum, and thinned with water to the 

 taste ; &c. Add to this list, besides, the various do- 

 mestic and foreign brandies, domestic and foreign 

 beers, cyder, cyder-oil, and the numerous foreign 

 wines which are drank, also tea, coffee, and chocolate, 

 and it will be easily seen that in this country the most 

 hankering palate need be in no desperation for a 

 variety of drinks. The wines again admit of divers 

 other mixtures; from wine, sugar, water, and a little 

 nutmeg there proceeds S angry ; from wine and sugar 

 with fresh milk, the beloved Sillabub &c. 



The condition of the Carolina negro-slaves is in 

 general harder and more troublous than that of their 

 northern brethren. On the rice-plantations, with 

 wretched food, they are allotted more work and more 

 tedious work ; and the treatment which they experience 

 at the hands of their overseers and owners is ca- 

 pricious and often tyrannical. In Carolina (and in no 

 other of the North American states) their severe 

 handling has already caused several uprisings among 

 them. There is less concern here as to their moral 

 betterment, education, and instruction, and South 

 Carolina appears little inclined to imitate the praise- 

 worthy and benevolent ordinances of its sister states 



