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 thoſe of any other country—they may do very well for jobbers, and for thoſe who require immediate work; but as they are not equally docile with thoſe of other nations, do not eaſily domeſticate, and form attachments, or work with pleaſure and perſeverance in their grounds, I would not recommend any number of them at a time to be fixed upon the ſame eſtate.

I now ſuppoſe the African to be arrived upon the ſpot, where his labours are to be exerted, and the remainder of his life confined. His content (for I will not think him capable of happineſs, for who is, or can be ſo?) muſt eventually depend upon a variety of circumſtances—upon the effect that his perſon may make upon the purchaſer, upon his obedience to the overſeer, upon the ſtructure of his body, the openneſs of his face, the vigour of his limbs, and upon his apparent ſenſe and ductability; but more than all, upon the connections he may form, and the protection he may find among negroes of conſequence and power upon the plantation. A negro