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 myſelf with tracing a repreſentation of his ſufferings in my own mind.

I ſhall now take up the imported ſlave from his firſt introduction to labour, and mark his progreſs in health and ſickneſs, under a mild, or cruel maſter, and in a warm, or chilly climate; for inconſiderable as is the extent of latitude between one part of the iſland of Jamaica and another; yet the ſeaſons vary, almoſt as much as between ſpring and ſummer, and autumn and winter in other regions.

Every man who purchaſes a negro, ſhould lay it down as a general poſition that he cannot bear the cold; his hut ſhould therefore be erected in a ſituation, impervious to the breeze at night, and under a local protection from the norths at noon, at the ſetting in of which (as they blow with uncommon keenneſs) moſt Europeans who have been long ſettled in the country, have annual viſitations of the fever; and the chilly negroes, attacked by pleuriſies, very ſenſibly feel, and painfully ſuffer, from this alteration of the climate. There