250 JAMAICA, 



to the other fex. If a feminary in this ifland is expedient for boySy. 

 it is ftill more fo for girls. The necefHiry branches of their in- 

 ftruftion ufually lie within a fmall compafs. They require not the 

 elements of Greek, Latin, or Hebrew ; nor the precepts of the 

 univerlitj, nor the theory of the fciences, mechanic arts, or learned 

 profeffions.. Readings writing, arithmetic, needlework, dancing, 

 and mufic, will, with the additional helps of their own genius, 

 prepare them for becoming good wives and mothers. There are 

 many parents in this ifiand, who, having a numerous family of 

 children of both fexes, and barely able to attbrd their fons an edu- 

 cation, in Britain ; they either fend for a governante, to in(tru6b 

 their daut^hters, or keep them uninftrufted, except by fuch cafual' 

 tuition a& may be h»ad from itinerant muiic or dancing mafters. The 

 utility of a board ing-fchool for thefe girls, where their number- 

 might admit of employing the ablefl teachers, where they might 

 be weaned from the Negroe dialeft, improved by emulation, and 

 gradually habituated to a modeft and polite behaviour, needs not, 

 1 think, any argument to prove it. Young ladies, fo far accom- 

 phfhed as, 1 think, they mightbe on a well-conduded plan, would 

 infenfibly acquire, on their emerging into public life, the remaining 

 graces and poliOi which are to be attained in genteel company and 

 converfation. They would, by this means, become objeclsof love 

 to the deferving youths, whether natives or Europeans, and by the 

 I force of their plealing attraftions foon draw them, from a loofe at- 

 jtachment to Blacks and Mulattoes, into the more rational and 

 ihappy commerce of nuptial union. 



Upon enquiry, in the year 1764, iHto the flate of the feveral 

 foundations in this ifland, it appeared that confiderable fums had 

 been given and bequeathed for the purpofeof erefting free-fchools ; 

 fome of which remained unapplied; and others had been fo ill- 

 managed, that the public derived but very trivial advantage from 

 them. 



Thefe foundations are r 



3 ft. Manning's, in Weftmoreland, founded hi 1710. 



2d. Onein Vere, by charitable donations, 1740. 



3d. In Spanifh Town, by devife of Peter Beckford, efq; 1744. 



4th. In Kingfton, by devife of John Woollmer, goldfmith, 173^. 

 2 5th. At 



