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the door. This building is two dories high, and 
condrudled in a different manner. It is divided tranf- 
verfely, as the other, but the end next the dwelling 
houfe is open on three Tides, fupported by polls or 
pillars. It has an open loft or platform, the afcent to 
which is by a portable ftair or ladder: this is a 
pleafant, cool, airy fituation, and here the mailer 
or chief of the family retires to repofe in the hot 
feafons, and receives his gueils or vifitors. The 
other half of this building is clofed on all Tides by 
notched logs ; the lowed or ground part is a pota- 
toe houfe, and the upper dory over it a granary for 
corn and other provifions. Their houfes are con- 
ftrudled of a kind of frame. In the fird place, drong 
corner pillars are fixed in the ground, with others 
fomewhat lefs, ranging on a line between; thefe 
are drengthened by crofs pieces of timber, and the 
whole with the roof is covered clofe with the bark 
of the Cyprefs tree. The dwelling dands near the 
middle of a fquare yard, encompalfed by a low 
bank, formed with the earth taken out of the yard, 
which is always carefully fwept. Their towns are 
clean, the inhabitants being particular in laying their 
filth at a proper didance from their dwellings, 
which undoubtedly contributes to the healthinefs of 
their habitations. 
The town dands on the mod pleafant fituation 
that could be well imagined or defired, in an inland' 
country ; upon a high fweliing ridge of fand hills, 
within three or four hundred yards of a large and 
beautiful lake, the circular fhore of which conti- 
nually wafhes 'a Tandy beach, under a moderately 
high (loping bank, terminated on one lide by ex- 
ten five foreds, confiding of Orange groves, over- 
topped with grand Magnolias, Palms, Poplar, Ti- 
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