broken to pieces. A mulatto overfeer at- 

 tended them, holding a whip at their backs ; 

 but he had every appearance of being as 

 much a ftranger to induftry, as the negroes ; 

 who proceeded very indolently, without 

 feeming to be at all apprehenfive of the 

 driver or his whip, except v/hen he made 

 it fall acrofs them in ftripes. 



In proportion to the work done by 

 Englifli laborers, and the price, ufually, 

 paid for it, the labor of thefe flaves could 

 not be calculated at fo much as twopence 

 per day ; for almoft any two men in Eng- 

 land would, with the greateft eafe, do as 

 much work in a given time, as was performed 

 by a dozen of thefe indolent meager-looking 

 beings* 



In one of our late perambulations, we 

 fell in with a party of negro women, wafli- 

 ing linen, at the opening of a river near the 

 fea ; and a more difgufting fight I do not 

 recoiled; ever to have beheld. They were 

 old women, of ftrong-marked, and very 

 hideous African countenance j and had no 

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