392 December 1748. 



demned to die according to the laws of the 

 country, without any hopes of faving him. 

 This lenity was employed towards him, 

 that the Negroes might not have the faiif- 

 fadiion of feeing a mafter executed for kill- 

 ing his flave ; for this would lead them to 

 all forts of dangerous defigns againft their 

 mafters, and to value themfelves too much. 

 The Negroes were formerly brought from 

 Africa, as I mentioned before j but now 

 this feldom happens, for they are bought 

 in the Wejl Indies, or American Ijlands, whi- 

 ther they were originally brought from their 

 own country : for it has been found that 

 on tranfporting the Negroes from Africa, 

 immediately into thefe northern countries, 

 they have not fuch a good ftate of health, 

 as when they gradually change places, and 

 are firft carried from Africa to the Weft In^ 

 dies, and from thence to North America, 

 It has frequently been found, that the Ne- 

 groes cannot (land the cold here fo well as 

 the Europeans or whites ; for whilft the 

 latter are not in the leaft affeded by the 

 cold, the toes and fingers of the former are 

 frequently frozen. There is likewife a ma- 

 terial difference among them in this pointy 

 for thofe who come immediately from Afri^ 

 ca, cannot bear the cold fo well as thofe 

 who are either born in this country, or 



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