178 TRAVELS THROUGH NORTH AMERICA *. 
owners receiving considerable fees annually for 
giving permission to people to bury their dead 
in them. It is very common also to see, in the 
large plantations in Virginia, and not far from, 
the dwelling house, cemeteries walled in, 
where the people of the family are all buried. 
These cemeteries are generally built adjoining 
the garden. 
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LETT EH XIV. 
Description of Dismal Swamp .—- Wild Men 
found in it.—Bears, Wolves, 8$c.—■Country 
between Swamp and Richmond.—Mode of 
making Tar and Pitch. — Poor Soil. — 
Wretched Taverns. — Corn Bread. — Diffi- 
cully of getting Food for Horses—Peters- 
burgli.—Horse Races there.—Description of 
Virginian Horses.—Stile of Riding in Ame¬ 
rica.—Description of Richmond, Capital of 
Virginia.—*Singular Bridge across James 
River.—State House.—Falls of James 
River.—Gambling common in Richmond.— 
Loiver Classes of People very quarrelsome . 
—Their Mode of Fighting.—Gouging. 
Richmond, May. 
FROM-;Norfolk I went to look at the great 
Dismal Swamp, which commences at the dis¬ 
tance, of nine miles from the town, and ex- 
