54 TRAVELS IN 
children, and the other for the females, 
with the father and mother. At the back 
of the middle apartment is a farther room, ferv- 
ing for a kitchen. The reft of the building 
confifts of barns and ftables. 
Such is the diftribution which is generally 
followed in the interior plantations of the co- 
lony : but nearer to the frontiers, where there 
does not prevail the fame eafe of circumftances, 
the habitations are much lefs commodious. 
They are merely a barn, confifting of a fingle 
room, without any divifion, in which the whole 
family live togeiher, without feparating, either 
day or night. 1 hey lleep upon jfheep ikins, 
which ferve them alfo for covering. 
The drefs of thefe planters is fimple and 
ruftic. That of the men confifts of a check 
fhirt, a waiftcoat with fleeves, a large pair of 
trowfers, and a hat half unlocped. The wo- 
men have a petticoat, a jacket fitted to their 
ihape, and a little round bonnet of m^uflin, 
Unlefs up§n extraordinary occafions, neither 
fex wears ftockings. During a part of the 
year, the women even walk with their feet 
quite naked. The occupations of the men re- 
quire th^t theirs ftiould have fome covering ; 
