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 The Italians and Genoee are alo but few, and are chiefly employed in cutting down the trees on the plantations that are in woods: ome of them carry about the country articles of grocery, tobacco, and other matters, which they dipoe of principally to negros on elates; by which means they make a good livelihood.

The other free inhabitants of this iland are free metiffs, free mulattos, free negros, and native Indians.

The free people of colour are chiefly of French extraction, and mot of them came from the ilands of that nation; from whence they have retired on account of the everity of the French laws, which prohibit them from wearing hoes, tockings, ornaments, or any dres after the fahion of white people. They