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ral. " Well,'' faid one of thefe mifcreants ironically to an chap. 

 old free negro, " don't you believe that the monkies are ' , 



a race of damn'd Chriftians, who have been thus trans- 

 formed for fhewing fo much lenity to fuch as you ?" 

 — " No, fir," replied the black man, we do not think that 

 the monkies are damn'd Chriftians; but I, and all of us, 

 believe that many who call themfelves Chriftians are a 

 pack of damn'd monkies." — Which pointed repartee 

 afforded me infinite fatisfa(5lion. 



Of the adminiftrators I lliall fay nothing, nor of the 

 appraifers of eftates ; having, I believe, already mentioned 

 that the firlt got ten per cent, of all the produce, and 

 many of the latter enrich the purchafers and themfelves 

 by felling under the value fuch property as is entrufted 

 to their earev> 



On the 7th, Mr. Moryny adminiftrator of the Hope, 

 being in a piece of newly-cultivated ground on the op- 

 pofite Ihore, I rowed over to obtain fatisfa<5lion of the im- 

 pertinent Blenderman, who was along with him ; but 

 this fellow's cowardice being equal to his infolence and 

 barbarity, he made every conceffion, and promifed iike- 

 wife to repair my dams, rather than run the rifque of 

 broken bones — thus a reconciliation was ellablifhed. 



Walking through thefe new fields, where a neat houfe 

 was already built, I faw fome beautiful birds, amongft 

 which was the wood-pecker. I ought indeed to have de- 

 fcribed this bird before, and another, the name unknown 

 to me, having had an opportunity of doing it when I was 

 at Magdenburg, but I then took only drawings of them. 



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