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 although it is a tak which I am by no means competent to, yet I hall be happy, if the few obervations here offered are of the lead ue to the riing generation in that part of the Britih dominions.

It mut be confeed, that in the Englih Wet Indies education is, in general, too little attended to, owing, in a great meaure, to the prejudices of the generality of parents, who, coming themelves from Europe, fancy there is no poibility of getting a good education in any other part of the world.

Prepoeed with this notion, their whole endeavours are to accomplih it for the benefit of their children; who, in the mean time, are uually put under the care of ome old woman, or peron of the other ex, equally as unqualified to teach them, merely for the purpoe of keeping the children out of the way. But it is often the cae, that after everal years have been pent by a child under uch tutors, ome