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. The tench that arose from the of the dead bodies, which remained for many  without interment (and to numbers of which  rites of burial could not be adminitered),  a kind of petilence, that wept away a  at proportion of thoe who had providentially  the firt detruction. Almost every peron the town and neighbourhood was affected; and  faculty were rendered incapable through, knes, to attend their patients, many of whom  from the inclemency of the weather, from nt of attendance, or upply of food: and to add  the general apprehenion, the negroes poured  in troops to the cene of devatation (and, I  orry to oberve, that many white people were ected, opon the pot, of promicuous plunder);  having made free with the rum that was  in the inundations, began to grow inolent and ; and, by their threats and conduct,  an alarm which it was found neceary, by exern and caution, at once to uppres: and what the , at uch a time of general confuion dread, might have been, had not the punche been immediately taved, can hardly, even at  ditance of time, be reflected upon without rrour.

That the unenlightened negroes hould be led to under, when they could it with afety, and the curbs of morality and religion to  them, is a circumtance not to be wondered  as it is conient with the common depravity of  nature; but that thoe who ought to be a ck upon the licentiounes which they  perhaps have taught, hould tand forward to vet miery of its lat upport, and even plunder ury itelf of its utmot farthing, is a reflection  thoe who can ditinguih black from white