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foclety, that time was not to him, as to the 
reft of the planters, a tedious and wearifome 
burthen. He employed it fometimes in la- 
bour, and fometimes in meditation ; for he 
knew as little of reading as they did ; and was 
indebted for his philofophy folely to his own 
reflcdions, and the combinations fuggefted 
by nature. With an exiftence of this kind, 
and happy after his own manner, he had never 
become a prey to languor ; and the ferenity 
of his mind feemed even to have had an in- 
fluence on his charadier : at leaft I never, In 
any part of the colony, witneffed a fprightlier 
converfation, or met with a more amiable and 
entertaining old man. 
Having been previoufly informed that I was 
to pafs through his plantation, and to vifit thq 
Piqyet mountains, he came to meet me, and 
offered to ferve me as guide in afcending thq 
higheft of them, if I would confent to fpend the 
day w^ith him. The firft part of his propo- 
fal was too agreeable to me not to acquiefce in 
the fecond. I attended him therefore to the 
mountain, w^bere I met with nothing that de- 
ferved particular obfervation, but where I en^ 
joyed thp magnificent fpedacle of a view the 
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