r ' [uires the use of the hoo. If 

 ha:^ ..^^ . rs'Ci\ hy the authors of Ame* 

 rica, that there were no robberies com- 

 mitted : but I did not find ii so : sereral 

 I N^y rol 's were corni: J even 

 in the streets of Philadelphia, which I look 

 upon to Ik one of the best- : ! towns 

 in America. And it is an usual pracuce 

 for the negroes to yo to see their wi%-es on 

 the Saturday night; and ns they arc at s rr.r 

 distance from the negro men's pl.ice 1 1 

 abode, in their road these men will take a 

 horse of. my personV'-. and ride him i'n^m 

 ten to fourteen miles, and h ■ vc 



hvn, at othrr times hriiig liim hack. 1 his 

 la iookcxl I '-ghi an offence, tfut 

 I r*t^vrr ?irird of in instance of any of 

 :i b ' : to ju :' If. 

 During my stiy in Philadelpliia, there 

 mktc two w. wln> mi ir 



children in the most daring manner. 

 TTic one got out « < tlie night, de- 

 livered herself in the ntxc^^urv, and mur- 

 w!. J cliUd bv pi ' it .- c 



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