five pounds, does appear advantageous, but 

 the infirm are always a great burthen. 



Now the reader will observe that the 

 calculations are made at different propor- 

 tions, at thirty, ten, and five pounds, viz* 

 supposing those who are used to negroes 

 to maintain them much cheaper than an 

 Englishman, who is unused to set victuals 

 out in a sparing manner which with 

 negroes is very necessary, for they are 

 wasteful beyond description, and keep dogs 

 xvhich they feed to excess : and in the 

 four hundred there are many children who 

 will not cost so much for clothing, in pro- 

 portion as the seventy working negroes. 

 The idea of the negroes is, that as they 

 \vork and raise all, they have a right to 

 consume all. As I have travelled on the 

 road, I have made it my business to con- 

 verse with them, and they say, a Massa, as 

 we work and raise all, we ought to con- 

 sume all ;" and to a person who does not 

 contradict them, they will declare their 

 mind very freely. They say, " Massa does 



