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 Texas, South-eastern, district described, ii., 23; imperfect drainage, 23; sparsely settled, 24; not a desirable place of abode, 24.

Tennessee, North-eastern, contrast between the homes of a slaveholder and a farmer without slaves, ii., 138.

Tennessee squire, a night with, ii., 128; his notion of buying Irishmen, 129.

Tobacco, plantation in Eastern Virginia, i., 88; reasons for growing, 88; negroes not able to cultivate the finer sorts, 89, ii., 254; their mode of payment, i., 98, 140.

Tobacco-peddling in South Carolina, i., 209.

Treating in Mississippi, ii., 155.

Tree-peddler, his catalogue of "curosest trees," ii., 75.

Trinity Bottom, ii., 2; fertility of surrounding lands, 3.

Turpentine forest, character of slaves employed in, i., 188.

Umbrellas carried by Alabama Indians on horseback, ii., 38.

'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' conversation on, i., 345, 354; ii., 135.

Vicksburgh, ii., 55.

Virginia, characteristics of the population, i., 39; association of blacks and whites, 40; the Public Guard, 41; rebellion of coloured people in 1801, 42; mode of living of Virginia gentlemen at home, 89; treatment of negroes in, 101; Economy of Virginia, 108; an Englishman's impressions on landing in the United States, 108; apparent indifference to shabby living, 108; its causes, 108; difference of means required to procure the same result, 108; a similar analogy between the North and South, 109; an exceptional case, 109; high price paid for skilled labour, 110; state of the community as a whole, 111; complaints of scarcity of hands, 111; the employment of whites in occupations usually performed by slaves distasteful both to master and labourer, 112; land most valuable, where proportion of slaves to whites is least, 114; comparative cost of slave and free labour, 117; advantages of the latter in wages paid, 118; in freedom from loss by disability, 118; frequency of feigned illness, 118; peculiar diseases of negroes, 122; means of maintaining discipline, 124; want of the motives to exertion possessed by free labourers, 131; influence of slave system on the habits of the whole community, 131; general want of civilized comforts, 137; waste of natural resources, 138, 143; rule of make-shift, 138; exceptional instances, 139; decay of its agriculture, ii., 303; mineral wealth, 365; want of means of education, 371.

Virginia, Eastern, its resources neglected, i., 8; poverty of its inhabitants, 10; description of a ride, 64; a strange vehicle, 65; the school-*house, 65; "Old Fields," 66; desolate appearance of the country, 66; a farm-house, 70; a country "grosery," 72; the court-house, 74; a night at an old plantation with a churlish host, 76; the "supper-room" and "sitting-room," 79; precarious existence of poor white labourers, 81; the "bed-*room," 84; the planter's charge for his "hospitality," 85; sparse population, 86; the meeting-house, 86; negro quarters, 87; a tobacco plantation, 88.

Voyage from Mobile to New Orleans, i., 285.

Washington, number of visitors at, i., 28; a boarding-house, 28; the market-*place, 34; price of land in the neighbourhood, 35; number of white labourers, 35; character of the coloured population, 36; an illegal meeting, 36.

Watchman, the, on a Carolina plantation, i., 240, 242.

Water-snakes, numbers of, ii., 24, 29.

'West Feliciana Whig,' account of slaughter of a runaway, ii., 161.