TRAVELS IN 
Pine and Cyprefs timber for the Weft-India market ; 
I will mow you their days work, when you will rea- 
dily grant that I have reafon to acknowledge my- 
felf fuffkiently gratified for the little attention be- 
flowed towards them. At yonder little new habi- 
tation near the bluff on the banks of lhe river, I 
have fettled my ekleft fon ; it is but a few days fince 
he was married to a defer ving young woman. 
Having at length arrived neat the high banks of 
the majeftic Savanna, we ftood at the timber land- 
ing : almoft every object in our progrefs contri- 
buted to demonstrate this good man's fyftem of 
economy to be not only practicable but eligible 
and the Haves appeared on all fides as a crowd of 
witnefles to juftify his induftry, humanity and libe- 
ral fpirit. 
The flaves 'comparatively of a gigantic ftature 3 
fat and mufcular, were mounted on the maflive 
timber logs; the regular heavy ftrokes of their 
gleaming axes re-echoed in the deep forefts ; at the 
fame time, contented and joyful, the footy fons of 
Afric forgetting their bondage, in chorus fung the 
virtues and beneficence of their matter in fongs of 
3-heir own composition. 
The log or timber landing is a capacious open 
area, the lofty pines * having been felled and clear, 
ed away for a confiderable diftance round about, 
near an almoft perpendicular bluff or fleep bank 
of the river, rifing up immediately from the water 
to the height of fixty or feventy feet. The logs 
being dragged by timber wheels to this yard, and 
* Pinus paluftris, Linn s the long leaved Pitch Pine, or yellow Pine. 
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