ito JAMAICA. 



The perfbn made choice of for mafler (hould not be allowed to 

 follow any other avocation ; which might engrofs too much of his 

 time, to the negle<fl of his pupils; and for thisreafon any beneficed 

 clergyman might be unfit, becaufe his parochial duties would pro- 

 bably claim a great part of that attention, the whole of which 

 ought folely to be employed in the affairs of the fchool. 



My wi(h to render this ifland more flourifhing far outftrips my 

 ability to propound the means. In this cafe, the (incerity of an 

 honeft intention muft atone for the imperfe»5lions of argument. 

 The rectitude of a n:ieafure is one thing; the means of ac- 

 complifhing it, another. Many perfons are able todifcern the for- 

 mer, who fearch for the other with hefitation. But, as the aflem- 

 bly poffefles happily the power of conducing mod ufeful plans to 

 effed, I cannot but indulge the hope, that it may hold a fubje(5l of 

 this importance not unworthy its moft ferious deliberation. 



CHAP. XIII. 



Ofibe Inhabitants, 

 SECT. I. 



THE inhabitants of this ifland may be diflinguiflied under the 

 following clafles : Creoles, or natives; Whites, Blacks, In- 

 dians, and their varieties; European and other Whites ; and im- 

 ported or African Blacks. 



The intermixture of Whites, Blacks, and Indians, has generated 

 feveral different cafls, which have all their proper denominations,- 

 invented by the Spaniards, who make this a kind of fcience among 

 them. Perhaps they will be better underflood by the following 

 table. 



Direct lineal Afcent from the Negroe Venter. 



White Man, = Negroe Woman. 



White Man, = Mulatra. ' i 



I 



White Man, = Terceron^ 



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White iVIan, = Qiiateron. 



■White Man, =; Qviinteroiu 

 Whi.th» 



JMediate 



