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