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may be beftowed, where it has been better earned. There is, ho\w 

 ever, no inftance of a town or parifli rennainin^ negh'gently without 

 a fchool. Many communities maintain their fchools for a greater 

 part of the year, than they are, by law, obhged to do. The feleft 

 men, and the deputations from the communities, manage the farms, 

 and other revenues of the fchools. 



<' Tl.e teachers are commonly yoimg men from the colleges, 

 ftudeptr of law, or theology. Their falaries are, at the pleafure of 

 the diff'iicnt pariftps, from two to three hundred dollars. Almoll 

 all tnofe (.vho now act a difl'ngniflied part in the political bufinefs 

 of New England, began their caieer as teachers in thefe fchools j 

 a fituation that is accounted exceedingly honourable. Sometimes, 

 where the falarv is fmall, women ar;; chofen to be the teachers. 

 Even thefe muft, in this cafe, be well qualified to teach reading, 

 writing, and arithmetic. 



" Every county mull have a fchool for Greek and Latin. A 

 fine of three dollars is exacted from parents negledling to lend their 

 children to fchool. The feleft men have authority to levy It. 



" One natural confequence, from the careful obfewance of this 

 law, is, that hardly a perfon can be met with in Connecticut, any 

 more than in MaffachulTets, who is not qualified to read, write, and 

 perform the coi'imon operations of arithmetic; and that the general 

 manners are better, the laws more faithfully obferved, and crimes 

 more rare, here, than in other places. " 



Faffing through New York and New Jerfey, the noble 

 author terminated a journey of feven months continuance ; 

 *' on which, " he fays, " I cannot reflc:6l without pleafure, 

 and, in the courfe of which, I found few things, but fuch as 

 I have had occafion to mark with approbation. " 



The journey through the fouthern dates was delayed till the 

 month of March : on the 24th of which month, the Duke took 

 fliipping at Philadelphia for Charleftown in South Carolina ; 

 and, during the pafl'age, obtained much previous knowledge 

 of the country from Mr Pringle, attorney-general of that 

 ftate, who was his fellow paflenger. After examining South 

 Carolina and Georgia, he proceeded to theSpanifli fettlements 

 of Eaft and Weft Florida 5 a defcription of which concludes 

 the performance. 



The hulbandry of thefe flates is of a quite different nature" 

 from that of the northern flates. Property is in much fewer 

 hands ; and farm-work is chiefly performed by negro flaves. 

 Rice is the principal ohje£l: of cultivation, though it appears 

 to be not only hurtful to the health of the people, the ground 



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