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to live as Englishmen do. A negro hat 

 generally a numerous family : and as all 

 men live from the ground, the negro's 

 family must be maintained as well as the 

 white man's family, although not at so 

 great an expence. There are many reasons 

 why no white man can do so much to- 

 wards raising produce from the earth in a 

 climate like that of America, as he could in 

 England, or as a black man can in America ; 

 the black man being able to bear the heat 

 much better than the white man. Besides, 

 there are generally three months in a year, 

 during which little can be done by any man, 

 except feeding cattle and cutting wood ; 

 the frost being so very severe, as to prevent 

 both plough and spade from penetrating into 

 the soil ; and there being no spring and 

 autumn, but all winter and summer. 

 When the summer sets in, the spring crop 

 must be got-in in a few days, or he had 

 better never sow it at all. When I was 

 with General Washington, he surprised me 

 much by saying he should lose his oat 



