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 it is owing, that there are o very few good chool-maters, or other proper perons, to form the minds of youth in the Englih ilands; as the encouragement for uch is o very trifling, that it is eldom worth a man's while to attempt it. Whereas, was the contrary practice more in ue, there is no doubt but that education would be as attainable in the Wet Indies, as in any part of Europe, and at a much les expence.

The French inhabitants of Dominica are more numerous than the Englih; and as before oberved, have the mot valuable coffee plantations in that iland. Their manners and cutoms differ but little from the people in the other French ilands; and their religion is the ame, for they are all Roman Catholics.

They have everal chapels in the iland, but the principal one is in the town of Roeau. This is built of wood, and is neatly ornamented in the inide with an altar-piece, hangings, ings,