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Editor and Proprietor), bears the imprint, "Shell- 

 banks, Va. Published by the Proprietor. 1834." 



P. 87 See, Smyth, Tour in the United States. Lon- 

 don, 1784, p. 15. " [Jamestown] once the metropolis 

 of Virginia and still possessing several privileges in 

 consequence thereof, one of which is sending a member 

 to the assembly, or parliament ; who is now Champion 

 Traverse, esq. the proprietor of the whole town, and 

 almost all the land adjacent, and I believe there are no 

 more voters than himself." 



P. 94 William Guthrie, New Geographical, His- 

 torical & Commercial Grammar, and present State of 

 the Several Kingdoms of the World &c. 2nd ed., 1777, 

 p. 670. 



P. 94 Lying on a pallat &c is the manner of life 

 particularly attributed by Smyth (Tour in the United 

 States, I, 41) to the Virginia gentleman of fortune, 

 who, says Smyth, rose about nine o'clock; whereas a 

 man of the middling class " rises in the morning about 

 six o'clock ; he then drinks a julap, made of rum, water, 

 and sugar, but very strong ; then he walks, or more 

 generally rides, round his plantation, views all his 

 stock, and all his crop, breakfasts about ten o'clock, on 

 cold turkey, cold meat, fried homminy, toast and cyder, 

 ham, bread, and butter, tea, coffee, or chocolate, which 

 last, however, is seldom tasted but by the women." 



P. 95 " Virginia, although it is one of the Southern 

 provinces, produces, none the less, sounder and stronger 

 men, as well as horses. ... It enjoys throughout the 

 year, above all other provinces, a temperate, uniform 

 weather, which imparts to animal bodies a greater de- 

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