Saw them plant
Tobacco. The Land is first hoed into small round hills about the size of
Molehills and about 4000 of them in an acre. The plants are something like
small Cabbage plants; they only make a hole with their fingers or a small
stick and put them in, one in each hill. Two Negroes will plant three acres in
one day. Small Blisters are broke out all over my body, attended with an
intolerable itching. They call it the Prickly heat and say it is very
wholesome. It may be so, for everything I can tell, but it is very troublesome.
SOURCE: Nicholas
Cresswell, The Journal of Nicholas
Cresswell 1774—1777, pp. 17-8
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