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to toe that the female negroes and children 

 are a real tax, besides the taxes paid to the 

 state for each working negro. And > from 

 every just calculation which I can make, 

 I cannot find that the cultivation of to- 

 bacco is equal to that of wheat, barley, &c. 

 in England, or the increase of negroes 

 equal to the breeding of sheep in England 

 for profit : the sheep clothe themselves. 

 I have thought that the removal of 

 these negroes from one part to another to 

 raise tobacco, as the woad growers in Eng- 

 land do, might answer, as it is very clear 

 that it is hard labour to maintain the peo- 

 ple on the worn-out land, after the tobacco 

 produce is over. But as the giving over 

 cultivation of that plant is but of late 

 standing, the inhabitants may not yet be 

 perfectly aware of the value of that crop. 

 Time, however, will tell. Those planters 

 who sell negroes, encourage their increase; 

 it is said to be a profitable traffic : to sell a boy 

 of eighteen years old, at eighty or one hun- 

 dred pounds, a girl at seventy or seventy- 



