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called such, appeared in as wretched condition as the team and its driver. Sometimes a couple of horses, mules, or cows, &;c. would be dragging a hogshead of tobacco, with a pivot or axel driven into each end of the hogshead, and some thing like a shaft attached, by which it was drawn or rolled along the road. I have seen two oxen and two slaves pretty fully employed in getting along a single hogshead; and some of these come from a great distance inland. In the evening of this day, I had a pleasant sail up the Patowmack to George-Town, where I lodged.