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few months hence, we fhall be little Inclined 

 to ufe fuch violent exercife. A walk of five or 

 fix miles appears to them tremendous : but 

 we fufFer no inconvenience from it, and, per- 

 haps, without being, yet, well able to judge, 

 we fancy that much of the languor and in- 

 ^divity of the Creoles and creollfed, might be 

 prevented, and ftronger health enjoyed, were 

 they to accuftom themfelves, more freely, to 

 habits of exercife. Againft our theory they 

 urge experience, remarking that all Euro- 

 peans, however fond of ufing much exercife, 

 on their firft arrival, gradually lapfe into 

 the fame Indolent indulgence as the natives. 



In one of thefe excurfions we, lately, 

 made a firft vifit to a fugar eftate. In the 

 hope of feeing the works, and witneffing 

 the mode of making the fugar ; but we were 

 difappointed, by finding that none of the 

 flaves were at work, and that the manager 

 was from home, with the keys of the boiling 

 houfe in his pocket. We had, however, 

 fome compenfation in being allowed to walk 

 into an excellent garden, adjoining the houfe, 

 where we were gratified with the Dovelty 



