102 COTTON MILL. 



ing in his neighbourhood extensive flour mills 

 where he finds a ready market for his wheat, 

 Virginia flour being in high estimation all over 

 the States. 



My time being limited I had it not in my 

 power to examine any other farm in this quar- 

 ter, although I was told that, forty or fifty 

 miles up the James river, there are to be seen 

 many fine farms .on a large scale ; in fact I 

 might easily have passed a month in pursuing 

 agricultural enquiries in this State. 



In returning to Richmond I visited an ex- 

 tensive cotton mill on James rive*r, at which 

 both white and black children are employed in- 

 discriminately, and they all appeared healthy, 

 clean, and comfortable, and as far as I could 

 judge the concern seemed to be well conducted. 



After having satisfied myself with the sights 

 of Richmond its commanding situation on 

 the banks of James river ; its State house on 

 the rising ground to which the city extends ; 

 its bridges of singular construction ; its theatre 

 and court-house ; its wharves, canal, and large 

 basin in the centre of the town j and above 



