EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. s 



enliven the pidlure, but becaufe I am determined to cHAP, 

 write truth only, and expofe vice and folly in their native _ 

 colours. — Come then, my friends — 



" Together let us beat this ample fields 

 " Try what the open, what the covert yield ; 

 " The latent trafls, the giddy heights, explore 

 Of all who blindly creep, or'fightlefs foar : 

 *^ Eye Nature's walks, fhoot Folly as it flies, 

 " And catch the manners living as they rife; 

 " Laugh where we muft, be candid where we can j 

 " But vindicate the ways of God to man." . 



Pops. 



I will now boldly launch out on the difficult tafk.-— 

 As the nature, however, of thefe tranfadions can only 

 be underftood by a reference to the occafion which call- 

 ed me thither, I feel myfelf under the neceffity of flill 

 premifing a few words upon that fubjedt. 



Every part of the world, where domejlic ^flavery is 

 eftablifhed, may be occafionally liable to infurre6lion 

 and difquiet, more efpecially where the flaves conftitute 

 the majority of the inhabitants ; but the colony of Su- 

 rinam^ in Dutch Guiana, has been peculiarly unfortunate 

 in this refpedl. Whether from the fhelter which is af- 

 forded to the fugitives by the immenfe forefts which 

 overfpread the moft confiderable part of this country, or 

 whether the government of this fettlement be radically 

 defe(aive, it is a certain fa6t, that its European fettlers 



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