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ing it out whole. A round hole remains not 

 unlike a pea iffue. This the negro commonly 

 fills with afhes from the pipe or fagar, mixed 

 with butter, tallow from a candle, or any other 

 kind of greafe that happens to be at hand, 

 and the cure is completed with the operation. 



A fpecimen of indolence in labour has 

 occurred to our obfervation, which, whether 

 it be regarded as the effe£t of climate, or of 

 flavery, I may note to you as an addi- 

 tional example of the feeble exertions ufed 

 by flaves in their unrequited round of toil. 

 A party of negroes being employed to 

 remove fome hofpital (lores, from the fide of 

 the water to a warehoufe, Dr. Cleghorn and 

 myfelf took the opportunity of paffing that 

 way in our walk, in order to fee them at work, 

 and to remark upon their induftry and mode 

 of labour. — We found no lefs than ten flaves 

 occupied in rolling a middle-fized cheft, with 

 a black driver holding his whip at their backs ? 

 and an overfeer, of fairer fkin, to command 

 them. It was perhaps, in all refpefts, the 

 very worft way in which fuch a package 

 could have been moved I From the fize of the 



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