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rendering a promenade upon the water, or its 

 banks, moft fragrant and inviting, and offering 

 to the eye and the palate all the variety of 

 oranges, {haddocks, limes, lemons, cherries, 

 cuftard apples, cafhew apples, avagata pears, 

 grenadilloes, water-lemons, mangoes, and 

 pines. The other walks, which traverfe the 

 plantation, are alfo cool and fragrant avenues 

 of fruit trees. 



But however great the richnefs, beauty, 

 and fragrance of the eftate, its canals, and 

 its walks, ftill I am fenfible that I fhall more 

 firmly fecure your attachment to it, by men- 

 tioning the fimple fad that, to flayery, it af- 

 fords a happy home 1 



I know not whether, upon any occa-» 

 iion, fmce my departure from England, I 

 have experienced fuch true and heart-felt plea- 

 fure as in witnefling the high degree of 

 comfort and happinefs enjoyed by the flaves 

 of u Profit." Mr. Dougan not only grants 

 them many little indulgences, and ftudies 

 to make them happy, but he generoufly 

 fofters them with a father's care ; and they, 

 fenfible of his tendernefs towards them, loolf 



