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two former. Manv of thefe are unfor- 

 tun-ate perfons, whom the unavoidable 

 accidents of life, or frowns of fortune, 

 have induced to feek an afylum in di- 

 ftant countries, where their induftry is 

 often fo amply rewarded, that they are 

 enabled to return with opulence and 

 credit, and blefs thofe accidents which 

 reduced them to the neceffitv of aban- 

 doning their homes, and which they 

 once efteemed the greateft misfortune. 



Agriculture, and all other labour, in 

 thefe Colonies, is almoft wholly per- 

 formed by Negroes (who are fufficiently 

 known in England,) as the White In- 

 habitants undertake no laborious em- 

 ployment ; and even the mechanics do 

 but little more than overfee and diredt 

 the Slaves, which are at leaft five times 

 more numerous than the Whites, and 

 are therefore kept at a fubmiffive and 

 humble diftance by feverity of difci- 



pline, 



