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 will proceed with regularity, and promiſe a continuance; in the ſecond it will be overſtrained; and like the bow that is too much bent, will break at laſt.

Negro children, as well thoſe who are creoles, as thoſe who are purchaſed, ſhould be lodged together, and under the particular notice of the overſeer; they ſhould have proper women to attend them day and night; they ſhould be made to move about, that they may have the uſe of their limbs, and kept in health, under the eye of a prudent old woman, whoſe ſole buſineſs it ſhould be, to make them hand-weed paſtures, or to employ them in ſome light work in which they may take delight, and which a gang of children, if it be at all numerous, will do to the full, as well as ſeaſoned negroes. They ſhould not be made to depend upon their mothers for food; but ſhould be daily ſupplied from the overſeer’s houſe; and he ſhould direct them to be fed three times a day, either under his own eye, or that of a book-keeper. They ſhould not turn out too early in the morning, nor be ſuffered to move out of their huts after dark; and to ſpeak