Excerpt from The Life of the Reverend Devereux Jarratt: Rector of Bath Parish, Dinwiddie County, Virginia I have more time for reading, than can well be employed in that exercise. I can not always read, as Ifind sitting iong over a book of any sort, is apt to create drowsi ness I need a change of employ, and as I have no turn at all for farming, I find it necessary to divide all my time between reading and writing in the latter of which. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.