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a defenfible barrack {houkl be built at a convenient diftance ; where 

 a party, either of foldiers or militia, fliould always be kept on 

 •duty. Tliis garrifon would anfwer a double purpofe, by giving 

 likewife a protedion to this part of the country, which requires it ; 

 and would have the further advantage of being one of the heal- 

 ihiefl: cantonments in the whole ifland. 



For the better fupply of this garrifon and the fchool, a Negroe 

 market Ihould be held here once a week, for poultry, hogs, and 

 fuch other provifions as thefe people ufually deal in. 



A certain number of white fervants fhould be conftantly kept, 

 in proportion to the number of boarders, that the latter might not, 

 by a too early familiarity and intercourfe with the Negroes, adopt 

 their vices and broken Englifh. 



The articles to be taught here fhould be reftrifted to reading, 

 writing, arithmetic (including book-keeping), the Spanifh and 

 French languages, furveying, mechanics, together perhaps with 

 fuch inftruftions in agriculture and botany as relate to the im- 

 provement of the vegetable productions of the ifland. The pu- 

 pils might likewife be taught mufic, dancing, fencing, and the mi- 

 litary iHanual exercife, to qualify them the better for a courfe of 

 life which requires agility and ftrength of body, and occafionally 

 the ufe of arms. The expences of boarding, wafhing, lodging, 

 and tuition, Ihould be regulated by law upon juft and equitable 

 terms, fuitable to the general price of neceflaries, and the circum- 

 flances of the middling inhabitants- Nor would it be a raif-placed 

 generofity, if the public fliould contribute a certain allowance to- 

 wards the education of each boy ; or at Icaft certain falaries to the 

 jmafter and his aflifl:ants, which would enable them to carry on the 

 undertaking on terms better fuited to the ability of parents. 



Refliriding the fcheme of education to thefe limit?, I purpofely 

 -exclude all thofe youths, whofe fortunes qualifying them for the 

 learned profeflions, or to cultivate thofe fublimer degrees of erudi- 

 tion proper to their rank, ought to purfue fuch fl:udies in Europe, 

 or North- America, becaufe it were vain to expert that they could 

 attain them to a due accomplifliment in this ifland. 



I confine the plan to the children of perfons who do not look fo 

 iiigh, and who would be content to fee their fons virtuoufly trained 



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