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Pine and Cyprefs timber for the Weft: India market ; 
I will Ihow you their day’s work, when you will rea- 
dily grant that I have reafon to acknowledge my- 
fclf fufficiently 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 eldeft fon ; it is but a few days fince 
he was married to a deferving young woman. 
Having at length arrived near the high banks of 
the majeftic Savanna, we ftood at the timber land- 
ing: almofi: every object in our progrefs contri- 
buted to demonflrate this good man’s fyftem of 
economy to be not only pradlicable but eligible ; 
and the flaves appeared on all fides as a crowd of 
witneffes to juftify his induftry, humanity, and libe- 
ral fpirit. 
The Daves comparatively of a gigantic ftature, 
fat and mufcular, were mounted on the maffive 
timber logs ; the regular heavy ftrokes of their 
gleaming axes re-echoed in the deep foreffs ; at the 
fame time, contented and joyful, the footy fons of 
Afric forgetting their bondage, in chorus fung the 
virtues and beneficence of their mafter in fongs of 
their own compofitiom 
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 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 palullris, Linn, the long leaved Pitch Pine, or yellow Pine. 
landed 
