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circulate fo freely as amongft the Englijb. 

 The women are perfectly well acquainted 

 with ceconomy ; they rife early, go to deep 

 very late, and are almoft over nice and 

 cleanly, in regard to the floor, which is 

 frequently fcoured feveral times in the 

 week. The iervants in the town are chiefly 

 negroes. Some of the inhabitants wear 

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

 out a hag or queue, which are looked 

 upon as the charadteriftics of Frenchmen ; 

 and as I wore my hair in a bag the firft 

 day I came here from Canada* I was fur- 

 rounded with children, who called me 

 Frenchman* and fome of the bolaeft of- 

 fered to pull at my French drefs. 



THEIR meat, and manner of drefling it, 

 is very different from that of the Engli/b. 

 Their breakfaft 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 fmall bit of it into 

 their mouths whilft they drink. Along 

 with the tra they eat bread and butter, 

 with flices of hung beef. Coffee is nof 

 ufualhere; they break fad generally about 

 leven. Their dinner is butter-milk, and 

 bread, to which they fometimes add fugar, 



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