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runs the water which turns the mill. On the 

 opposite side of the field is the chaplain's cot- 

 tage, with its adjoining lesser row of negro huts, 

 its plaintain garden, and its wide-spreading 

 mango trees behind it. Beyond the principal 

 house are low and extensive cane and. meadow- 

 lands, which are skirted on one side by the build- 

 ings of another small plantation, and bordered 

 at a great distance by woods, which are situated 

 upon the sides and summit of rising ground. 



This valuable and beautiful plantation was in 

 the possession of a near relation of our Capitam- 

 mor. We were acquainted with the son of 

 the owner, who was chaplain to the estate, 

 and had invited us to make his residence our 

 resting-place ; this we did. He was prepared 

 to receive us, and after having breakfasted, we 

 proceeded to pay a visit to the old gentleman at 

 the Great House, as the dwellings of the owners 

 of plantations are called. He was unwell, and 

 could not be seen ; but we were received by 

 his wife and two daughters. They made many 

 enquiries about England, and conversed upon 

 other subjects which they supposed we might 

 be acquainted with. This estate was not much 

 worked ; the slaves led a most easy life, and 

 the Great House was full of young children. 

 Of these urchins several came in and out of 

 the room, they were quite naked, and played 

 with each other, and with some large 



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