[880] Schoepf, ii, 47.
[881] Watson, 252.
[882] Chastellux, 224; see also 243.
[883] La Rochefoucauld, iv, 119.
[884] Ib., 590.
[885] See infra, II, chap. II.
[886] De Warville, 262.
[887] Watson, 261-62. "The indolence and dissipation of the middling and lower classes of white inhabitants in Virginia are such as to give pain.... Horse-racing, cock-fighting, and boxing-matches are standing amusements, for which they neglect all business." (Ib.; and see Chastellux, 292, translator's note. Also see Chastellux's comments on the economic conditions of the Virginians, 291-93.) For habits of Virginians nearly twenty years after Watson wrote, see La Rochefoucauld, iii, 75-79.
[888] "The session assembles here, besides the neighboring judges, lawyers, and parties whose causes are to be tried, numbers of idle people who come less from desire to learn what is going forward than to drink together," says La Rochefoucauld; and see his picturesque description of his arrival at the close of court day at Goochland Court-House. (La Rochefoucauld, iii, 126-29.)
[889] One man to every five men, women, and children, which is a high estimate.