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grind and pack 30 barrels of flour per day. A barrel being 196lbs. or 14st. the annual returns, at 3s. Per stone, would be nearly 200,000l. The stones were 7 feet in diameter. 8th Month, 6th. I left Baltimore, in company with T. M. of Sandy Springs. In the evening we reached George-Town, where he is employed, by the corporation, to fill up the deep channel of the Patowmack, on the south side of Mason's Island, in order to turn the stream of that river to the side next to George-Town, that the harbour may be deepened. Near Bladensburg we passed a Caro-lina Slave Merchant, with a company of slaves, men, women, and children; who all stopped at the door of the inn where we dined. Some of them appeared much dejected; and, on my questioning them, they told me they, were taken from their relatives and friends by force. One of the females being known to a black man in the stage, he asked her how he came there, knowing her to be a free black. She replied, that some time since, her husband had been taken from her, and carried into the Carolinas; and that she had determined to follow him in his bondage. This appeared to be a remarkable proof of conjugal affection, and showed a high degree of sensibility: but, in thus following her husband, there is great reason to fear from the general conduct of these Slave