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Show 2 T R AVE L S T H R 0 U G JI N 0 n T H J\ l'Jl E R 1 C A : his mnfl.cr's houfe, which was but a mile farther on; '' Mafkr will h " [o (Thd t fcc to you," adtkcl he, " nothi11g cAn b l ih~ ." Ihvin rr bee 1~1pp 1 iz;cd l>efur(;hand, that it was cufl:omary in Virginia for n traveller to go without ccn.:mony to a gentleman's h oufc, when there wa no tavern at band, I accordingly took the negro 's advice, and rode to the , dwelling of hi mafler, made him acqnainted with my fitu ation, and begged I might be allow ·d to put my horics in his fl ,tbk for tht.: night. The rcc<.:pti n, however, which this gentleman gave me, diff~rcd fo m.tc! ·ially Ji-om what I had been led to cxpetl, that I was happy at hcarins fr m h im, that there was a good tavern 'lt the diflance of two mi le . I apologi{( d for the liberty I had tal en, and made the bcfl: of my ' ay to it. lnflead of two miles, however, this tavern proved to iJe about three ti:IlCS as far off, and when I came to it, I found it to be a mofi wretched ho cl ; but any place was preferable to the houfe of a nun fo thoronghly devoid of hofJ)itality. The next day I arrived at this place, the refidcnce of a gentleman, who, when at Philadelphia, had invited me to pafs fame time with him henever I vifited Virginia. Some of the neighbouring gentlemen ycfte~ ·day din d here together, and having related to them my adventures on arriving in Virginia, the whole company expreficd the greate:fl: afl.oni0m1ent, and afiured me that it was nev r known before, in that part of Virginia, that a {hanger had been fuffcred to go away ii·om a gentleman's houfe, where he :fl:opped, to a tavern, although it w::~s clofc by. Every one fecmcd eager to know the name of the pcrfon who had given me fuch a reception, and begged me to tell it. I did fo, and the Virginians were fatis fied, for the perfon was a- Scotchman, and had, it fc cms, removed from fome town or other to the plantation on which I found him but a {bort time before. The Virginians in the lower parts of the fiatc are celebrated for their politencfs and hofpitality towards {hangers ; beyond the mountains there is a great difft.:rencc in the manners of the inhabitmts. D I S P A R I T Y AM 0 N G THE IN H .An IT AN T s. LETTER XL Of t~e Nortbem N cc_k _of Virgt:z.ict.-. Firfl .fi:tt!ed by the Engfijl,.-llozifc:.r bmlt by them remazmng.-D!Jpartty qf Condttion among fl the fnbt~bitants. -FJl_atcs 'Worked by Negroes.-Condttion q/ the S!aves.-!Yotfi ;7~ tbt ~rzrolmas.-_Lands 'worn out by Cultivation ifTobacco.-Mode ofcu!tt'"uat mg and curmg _'Tob~cco.-Ilot!Ps 1it Virginia.-Thqp qf ff/ood prcferre.l. -Lowt:r Clq(Jcs qf People in Vtigtizl"a.-Theti· unbce/tby Appcara11a. Stratford, April. T II IS part o_f Vir~inia, fituated between the Pntowmac and R:tppa-hannock n vers, IS called the Northern N eel·, and is remarkable for l1aving been the birth place of many of the principal characters which di fl: in,!•uilhcd themfelves in Americ.1, during the war, by their ;rent talents, General Wafhington at their head. It was here that number , of Engl i01 ?entlemen, who migrated when Virginia wa a young colony, ~x~d therr relldence; and fcveral of the houfcs which they built, cxaCl:Jy fimtb.r to the old manor houfes in England arc fl:iJl rcm·1inin"" ·t· • • , L 5 , pat Icu-larly 111 the counties vf Richmond and Wefl:morehnd. Some of theft.· like _the houfes in Maryland: arc quite in ruins; other5 arc kept in good rcpau· by the pr~fcnt ~ccu_?~ers, who live in a flyle which approaches nearer to that of Engh01 onntry gentlemen than wlut is to be met with :wy where elfe on the continent, fome other parts of Virginia alone ex-cepted. " . Am~ngf~ the inhabitants h re and in the lower parts of Virginia tf1cre 1s a dtfpanty unk~own elfc,wh~rc in 1\mcrica, excepting in the largetowns. Inficad of the Janos bemg equally divided, imm nfc cflatcs arc held by a [I w individuals, who derive l rgc incomes {r m them whilfl the generality of the people arc but in a Il:ate of mcdio rity. ~oil: of t~c men alfo, \Vho poffefs thefe luge eil:l.tcs, havin!)" receiv d liberal cdllcatlons, which the others have not, the difl.inttion bet\vccn the 11 is frill. more obfcrvablc. I met with i(·veral in this ncighbourhooJ, who h;td lVI 2 b ,en• |