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generous and facial, and the riches of his 

 table are difpenfed with all the bounty of his 

 nature. Ihftead of a plain cottage juft rifing 

 from the wild woods of an infant fettlement, 

 we might have fancied ourfelves feafting in 

 one of the hofpitable manfions of old England, 

 nay, in fame chartered hall, even, of volup- 

 tuous London itfelf. 



The houfe is a compaft dwelling, neatly 

 built of plain wood, offering in its exterior 

 nothing to attract the flranger's eye, nor to 

 befpeak the many luxuries within. It ftands 

 on the border of the fea, open to the wide 

 ocean. Before it, is an extenfive and flat beach 

 of firm fand, forming a pleafant ride or walk 

 at the fide of the water. The eftate is quite 

 in its infancy, being recently formed out of 

 the rude foreft, and indeed only now breaking 

 into cultivation. In great part of it the young 

 plants of cotton are juft (hooting from the foil 

 between the remaining flumps of trees lately 

 deftroyed. Yet notwithstanding the infant 

 ftate of this hofpitable home, it offers more of 

 the good things of life, than I had feen at 

 any other place fince leaving England. Having 

 no market in the colony, each planter's abode 



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