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 who altogether, including men, women, and children, do not exceed the number of ix hundred, excluive of the regular troops tationed there. This is indeed a very mall number of Englih ubjects for o very large and fine an iland, the value of its poeion by Great Britain being thereby coniderably leened; for o few inhabitants are totally inufficient to render it of that importance, which it is capable of being, to the mother-country.

The cutoms and manners of the Englih are much the ame, as ditinguih the different decriptions of the ame people in the everal parts of Great Britain, from whence they came; and their religious peruaions are alo the fame.

It is much to be lamented, that in the Englih Wet India ilands in general, there prevails a great averion to forming matrimonial connections, as colonization is thereby much