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