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be loose garments of cotton and woollen cloths, girt round the waist with a small cord. I had ob-served that this was a common dress of the work- ing female Negroes in the fields; but, when engaged in business in the house it seemed hardly sufficient to cover them. In the yard, I observed a number of slaves engaged in the management of a still, employed in making spirits from cider. Here again I had the curiosity to look into some of the Negro huts, which like those I had before seen, pre- sented little else but dirt and rags. In travelling along, I saw several plantations of cotton, in some of which the negro children were gathering the wool. In the afternoon, as our road lay through the woods, I was surprised to meet a family party travelling along in as elegant a coach as is usually met with in the neighbourhood of London; and attended by several gaily dressed footmen: a sight not very common in the back woods of this country. The evening coming on, and no inn being near, we took up our quarters at the house of a planter of the name of Holiday, where we were well accom-modated. 9th Month, 28th. We came to Fredericksburg and lodged at Fisher's Tavern. The next morning, I was waked early by the cries of a poor Negro, who was undergoing a severe correction, previously to his going to York. On taking a walk on the banks of the Rappahannock, the river on which