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HOUSE AND SURROUNDINGS. 



can be shipped, at one movement to New York. Turpentine 

 does not flow in sufficient quantity from this variety of the 

 pine to be profitably collected, and for lumber it is of very 

 small value. 



" Mr. W.'s house was an old family mansion, which he 

 had himself remodeled in the Grecian style, and furnished 

 with a large wooden portico. An oak forest had originally 

 occupied the ground where it stood ; but this having been 

 cleared and the soil worn out in cultivation by the previous 

 proprietors, pine woods now surrounded it in every direction ; 

 a square of a few acres only being kept clear immediately 

 about it. A number of the old oaks still stood in the rear 



THE PLANTER'S HOME. 



of the house, and. until Mr. W. commenced his improvements, 

 there had been some in its front. These, however, he had 

 cut away, as interfering with the symmetry of his grounds, 

 and in place of them had ailanthus trees in parallel rows. 



" On three sides of the outer part of the cleared square 

 there was a row of large and comfortable-looking negro 

 quarters, stables, tobacco- nouses, and other offices, built of 

 logs. Mr. W. was one of the few large planters, of his 

 vicinity, who still made the culture of tobacco their principal 



