S 6 July 1749. 



tween. the manners of thofe two nations in 

 Europe. The women in general are hand- 

 fome here ; they are well bred, and virtu- 

 ous with an innocent and becoming free- 

 dom. They drefs out very fine on Sundays ; 

 and though on the other days they do not 

 take much pains with other parts of their 

 drefs, yet they are very fond of adorning 

 their heads, the hair of which is always 

 curled and powdered, and ornamented with 

 glittering bodkins and aigrettes. Every 

 day but Sunday, they wear a little neat 

 jacket, and a {hort petticoat which hardly 

 reaches half the leg, and in this particular 

 they feern to imitate the Indian women. 

 The heels of their fhoes are high, and very 

 narrow, and it is furprizing how they walk 

 on them. In their knowledge of ceconomy, 

 they greatly furpafs the Eng/zfb women in 

 the plantations, who indeed have taken the 

 liberty of throwing all the burthen of houfe- 

 Jceeping upon their hufbands, and lit in their 

 chairs ajl day with folded arms.* The 

 women in Canada on the contrary do not 

 fpare themfelves, efpecially among the com- 

 mon, 



* It feems, that for the future, the fair fex in the Englijh. 

 colonies in North-America^ will no longer defenre th re- 

 proaches Mr. Kai;.t ftigmatizes them with repeatedly, fince 

 it is generally reported, that the ladies of late have vied 

 one with another, in providing their families with linen,, 

 {lockings, and home-fpun cloath of their own making, and 

 that a general f; irit of industry pr^/ails among them at this 

 prefect time. F. 



