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the two firft Plantations that arretted our atten- 

 tion. The latter is under the diredion of a 

 very fingular and eccentric charadier, wbofe 

 great ambition is to ad differently from other 

 men ; and who finds a fecret pleafure in 

 deviating from all eftabliihed and common 

 rules. His mill is oddly trimmed, the fails 

 ftrangely cut, and all the works, by fome 

 deviation or other, made peculiar. Among 

 a multitude of other fingularities he has plant- 

 ed a patch of pigeon peas in the neighbour- 

 hood of a field of canes, in order to allure 

 the borers from the fugar, — a piece of policy 

 very like fetting a difli of tough beef before 

 an alderman to feduce his appetite from a 

 haunch of venifon ! 



From Kendall's we rode to " Drax-Hall," 

 the largeft plantation of the ifland, and the 

 property of the Grofvenor family. The 

 houfe is a fpacious old manfion, quite pro- 

 portionate to the fize of the eftate, which we 

 obferved, from its great extent, had two mills, 

 and a double fet of works for the preparation 

 of the fugar. This was alfo the cafe at the 

 large eftates of Colleton and Kendall, 



