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( 146 ) hours, might bring themselves to go through nearly as much labour and fatigue in the West Indies, as any people whatever. Mr Clappeson thinks the whites, if temperate, are able to labour in Jamaica. He says, no people work harder than the English sailors there: and Dr. Jackson apprehends, as a medical man, that white men may work as artificers, in the West Indies, without any material detriment to their health. C H A P.