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 there are few of them to be een among the looe wantons of the ex in the Wet Indies; the generality of the white women of that decription being actually compoed of adventurers from Europe, or of uch as have followed the army and navy to the ilands.

This lat circumtance is, in my opinion, a clear refutation of that too generally received notion, that women in particular, in warm climates, are given to inordinate deires; and proves to a demontration, that uch paions are not owing to the climate, but rather to a too warm contitution, which, aided by luxury, too often gives itelf up to atisfying its own depraved appetites, againt every ene of decency, and conideration of duty.

Thee obervations lead me to the dicuion of another ubject, of equal importance; namely, that of education peculiar to the Englih Wet India ilands. This, although