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 ome unexpected misfortune happens to the parent, who is rendered as unable to afford the expence of ending his children to Europe, and paying the neceary contingencies of chooling there, as he was when they firt came into the world; or too much time is required to enable him to accomplih his purpoe.

The conequences are obvious, for the child having outgrown the proper eaon for receiving any material benefit from education, it anwers very little purpoe, if at that time the parent is able to accomplih his deire. And it is a general remark in the Wet Indies, that of uch as have been ent to Europe for education after a certain period, few have returned thither as accomplihed as many, who have had only a moderate chooling in the ilands; and carcely any, without having his morals corrupted.

To this o prevalent practice in parents, of ending their children to Europe for education, it