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by the pulse, tongue, and other external tokens, 
if a subject who complains is really sick : It were 
well if his skill in Surgery went to phlebotomy and 
the setting of a limb : He should know a sufficiency 
of Farriery to make the proper applications for 
diseases of Horses, Mules, and horned-cattle :— 
He should be sufficient of a Mechanic to superin¬ 
tend the erection, at least, of rough buildings :— 
He should be so much of a Mathematician, as to 
be able to measure, and cast up the contents of a 
piece of Land ; to trace Roads, and level Ca¬ 
nals for conducting Water :—He should possess a 
knowledge of Law and natural Justice, to decide 
correctly and impartially, in contests for property, 
and other disputes, among the Class of people com¬ 
mitted to him ; and enough of the Sacerdotal cha¬ 
racter, to inculcate a love of order and morality, 
without permitting his doctrines to partake of the 
cant and hypocrisy of Methodism. 
All these requisites, with a thorough knowledge 
of his business, it must be admitted, are very rare 
to 
He should preserve a steady impartial authority ; he should exact 
silence and order at the work :—he should keep himself clear 
from, and discover, and expose, all cabals :—he should be vigi¬ 
lant in the extreme over the conduct of the people in their Houses | 
for as his resorts will be so much more immediately among 
them, than the whites, he cannot but be informed of all that 
passes:—he should be tenacious of the respect due to his situa¬ 
tion ; and even at their feasts, diversions, and recreations, pre¬ 
serve a proper distance and reserve This Officer is allowed to 
punifh, for negligence or remissness, as far as half a dozen lashes ; 
but no further, without orders from the Chief Director of the 
Estate. 
