CHAPTER V 



THROUGH FLORIDA SWAMPS AND FORESTS 



OF the people of the States that I have 

 now passed, I best Hke the Georgians. 

 They have charming manners, and 

 their dwellings are mostly larger and better 

 than those of adjacent States. However costly 

 or ornamental their homes or their manners, 

 they do not, like those of the New Englander, 

 appear as the fruits of intense and painful sac- 

 rifice and training, but are entirely divested of 

 artificial weights and measures, and seem to 

 pervade and twine about their characters as 

 spontaneous growths with the durability and 

 charm of living nature. 



In particular, Georgians, even the common- 

 est, have a most charmingly cordial way of say- 

 ing to strangers, as they proceed on their jour- 

 ney, "I wish you well, sir." The negroes of 

 Georgia, too, are extremely mannerly and po- 

 lite, and appear always to be delighted to find 

 opportunity for obliging anybody. 

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