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circulate fo freely as amongft the Engli/h. 

 The women are pn-fedtly well acquainted 

 with ceconomy ; they rife early, go to fleep 

 very late, and are almoft over nice and 

 cleanly, in regard to the floor, which is 

 frequently fcoured feveral times in the 

 week. The fervants in the town are chief! v 

 negroes. Some of the inhabitants wear 

 their own hair, but it is very fhort, with- 

 out a bag or queue, which are looked 

 upon as the characleriftics of Frenchmen ; 

 and as I wore my hair in a bag the firffc 

 day I came here from Canada, I was fur- 

 rounded with children, who called me 

 Frenchman, and fome of the boldeft of- 

 fered to pull at my French drefs. 



Their meat, and manner of drefling it, 

 is very different from that of the Englt/h: 

 Their breakfifl is tea, commonly without 

 milk. About thirty or forty years ago, 

 tea was unknown to them, and they break- 

 faded either upon bread and butter, or. 

 bread and milk. They never putfugar in- 

 to the cup, but tike a fmill bit of it into 

 their mouths whilft they drink. Along 

 with the tea they eat bread and butter, 

 with dices of hung beef. Coffee is not 

 ufual here ; they breakfaft generally abou'i 

 feven. Their dinner is butter-milk, and 

 bread, to which they fometimes add fugar, 



then 



