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TRAVELS 1M 
Pine and Cyprefs timber for the Weit-India market; 
I will ihow you their days work* when you will rea- 
dily grant that I have reafon to acknowledge my- 
felf fufEciently gratified for the little attention be- 
llowed towards them. At yonder little new habi- 
tation near the bluff on the banks of the river, I 
have fettled my eldefb ion > it is but a few days fmce 
he was married to a deferving young woman* 
Having at length arrived near the high banks of 
the majeilic Savanna, we flood at the timber land- 
ing: almofl every objedi: in our progrefs contri- 
buted to demonftrate this good man’s fyflem of 
economy to be not only practicable but eligible ; 
and the flaves appeared on all fides as a crowd of 
witneffes to juftify his indufhy, humanity and libe- 
ral fpirit. 
The Haves comparatively of a gigantic ftature, 
fat and mufcular, were mounted on the maffive 
timber logs; the regular heavy ilrokes 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 mailer in fongs of 
their own eompofition. 
The log or timber landing is a capacious open 
area, the lofty pines* having been felled and clear- 
ed away for a confiderable diflance round about, 
near an almofl perpendicular bluff or deep 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, the long leaved Pitch Pine, or yellow Pine. 
landed 
