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repeated trials and long experience, to be equally deflruclive to 

 tliem ; care being only taken to give a proper dofe of rhubarb, or 

 other niikl purg.tive, in order to carry oft rlie dead worms. 



An old woman here lormerly performed feveral wonderful cures 

 of tliis kind, with no other remedy than fat pork, witli which fhc 

 fed her little patients ; and, no doubt, it acted upon the worms in 

 the like manner as the oily compofitions frequently prefcribed, 

 which are found to dcftroy thcfe animalcules by flopping up 

 their pores. 



Another i'i:iisfortune is, the conftant intercourfe from tlieir birth 

 with Negroe domeftics, whofe drawling, diflbnant gibberifli they 

 infenfibly adopt, and with it no Imall tinfture of their aukward 

 carriage and vulgar manners; all which they do not eafily get rid 

 of, even after an Englifh education, unlefs fent away extremely 

 young. 



A planter of this ifland, who had feveral daughters, being ap- 

 prehenfive of thefe confequenccs, fent to England, and procured a 

 tutorefs for tlem. After her arrival, they were never fuffered to 

 converfe with the Blacks. In Ihort, he ufed all his vigilance to 

 preferve tiieir language and manners from this infedion. He fuc- 

 ceeded happily in the delign ; and thefe young ladies proved fome 

 of the mod aarceable and well-behaved in the iflaud: nor could it 

 be diftinguifhcd from their accent, but that they had been brought 

 up at fome genteel boarding-fchool in England ; inlbmuch that 

 they were frequently afkcd, by (hangers, how long they had re- 

 .fided in that kingdom. Until a proper feminary can be eftablifhed, 

 every mader of a family here might purfue the like method, at 

 leafl: with his daughters, who are generally kept more at home 

 .than boys. But a mother, who has been trained in the accuflomed 

 mode among a herd of Negroe-domeltics, adopts the fame plan, 

 for the moft part, with her own children, having no idea of the 

 impropriety of it, becaufe flie does not difcern thofe fingularities, 

 in fpeech or deportment, which are fo apt to ftrike the ears and 

 .eyes of well-educated perfons on a firft introduction to them. 



The ladies, hov/ever, who live in and about the towns, being 

 .often in company with Europeans, and others brought up in Great- 

 Britain, copy imperceptibly their manners and addrcfs ; and become 



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