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would be a work of difficulty. You will form 

 feme idea of it from the loofe details I have 

 marked. It has offered us an abundant op- 

 portunity of feeing the whole face of the Ifland; 

 of viewing many of the different plantations ; 

 of obferving the produce and mode of cultiva- 

 tion ; of witneffing the manners and cuftoms 

 of the inhabitants ; and of noticing the labors 

 and mode of life of the flaves ; — whom we 

 have feen in the fields, — in their huts, — in the 

 fugar works, — about the houfes, — at their mo- 

 ments of reft and retirement, and amidft all 

 their various occupations and modes of em* 

 ployment. 



