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are allo-wed to build themfelves fmall huts to 

 live in, but they are, commonly, of very coarfe 

 conftrudion, and are dark, clofe, and fmoky. 

 At the eftate I now fpeak of, a circular piece 

 of ground had been appropriated as the negro- 

 yard, but inftead of the flaves being left 

 to conftnid: their own habitations^ fixteen 

 very neat and uniform cabins have been 

 erected of wood, and well roofed with fliin- 

 gles Placed in eight divifions they form a 

 hollow odlagon, a free opening being left for 

 the breeze at one end of each hut. In the 

 centre of the odagon is built a common 

 kitchen, which ferves for all the fixteen 

 families. The huts are neat, and the 

 whole premifes wear an air of order, and of 

 cleanlinefs, not common to the abode of 

 flaves. - 



We contemplated this fpot with much 

 fatisfadion, and were gratified in obferving 

 the high degree of attention, which was here 

 given to the comfort and accommodation 

 of the negroes ; who had little caufe to lament 



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