crowd of negroes, male and female, as they 

 chance to be feen, at reft, or moving In bufy 

 occupation, fome paffing from hut to hut, 

 fome dancing to their favorite mufic, fome 

 fitting at the door with the pipe in their 

 mouths, and others fmoking their loved fagar 

 under the broad leaf of the plantain. The 

 pidure is alfo further enlivened by the 

 groups of little black children ; — fome run- 

 ning and ikipping about, fome feated, play- 

 ing before the doors, in Nature's ebon drefs, 

 and fome, unable to walk, attempting little 

 pedeftrian excurfions upon their hands and 

 feet. Perhaps within fo fmall a fpace, few 

 fcenes could offer fo much to intereft a con- 

 templative mind ; or to aid the pencil of a 

 painter of the pidurefque. • . 



independent of their own provlfions, 

 either raifed or purchafed, each negro has his 

 weekly allowance ilTued to him, every Sun- 

 day, from the eftate ; and hence they are at 

 liberty to take the whole of theiv ow^n private 

 ftock to market, and to procure whatever ad- 

 ditional comforts they prefer with the money 

 it produces ; and perhaps it will feem ftrange 

 to you when I tell you that the markets of 

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