CHAPTER V 
THROUGH FLORIDA SWAMPS AND FORESTS 
F the people of the States that I have 
QO now passed, I best like 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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