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coaft, fuddenly journied into the fea ; and? 

 while the unhappy man was bewailing the 

 lofs, not only of his crop, but like wife of the 

 territory on which it was growing, the land of 

 his neighbour, Mr. Fofter, travelled to the 

 fpot, and brought to him a crop of canes, which 

 continued to grow quite as well as before 

 they took their journey. 



On cur approach to Col. Williams's, 

 we were led into a fine valley of fruits, 

 which ofFered us the moft grateful refrefh- 

 ment that could have prcfented itfelf. We 

 had been long riding in exceflive heat, and 

 were parching with thirft ; when the Colonel, 

 without previoufly announcing it, conduced 

 us to the point of a hill from which we fudden- 

 ly viewed a rich and golden orchard below. 

 Elevated as we were above the narrow gul- 

 ly in which the fruits were growing, our 

 fituation feemed in a degree vexatious and 

 tantalizing — but the Colonel only tempted 

 us, to augment our gratification, for we 

 quickly defcended, by a fteep and confined 

 path, into the midft of this region of fweets ; 

 where, had the fruit been prohibited as the 



