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number of young ^v^dows, who are greedily fuapped up by di- 

 ilrefled bachelors, or rapacious wiilowers, as foon as the weeds are 

 Jaid afide. Sir Nicliolas Lawes, formerly governor of the iHand, 

 uled to fay, tlvat the female art of growing rich liere in a fnort 

 time was comprized iji two lignificant words, " marry and burvy 



To fum up the charatfler of the Jamaica ladies, I fliall conclude 

 with this jemark ; that, confidering the very great defeats in their 

 education, and other local difadvantages, their virtues and merits 

 feem juftly entitled to our highefl: encomium ; and their frailties and 

 failings to our mildefl: cenfure. 



SECT. 11. 



THE natives of Scotland and Ireland feem to thrive here much 

 better than the European Englifli. They bring founder confuta- 

 tions with them in general, and are much looner provided for. 

 The national partiality, which is made an accufation againft the 

 gentlemen of the two former parts of the Britifli empire, is lb far 

 attended here with very good confequences ; for their young coun- 

 trymen, who come over to feek their fortunes, are often beholden 

 to the benevolence of thefe patrons, who do not fuffer them to 

 languifh and fall into defpondence for want of employment, but 

 take them under friendly protedtion ; and, if they are well difpofed, 

 they are foon put into a way of doing fomething for themfelves. 

 The gentlemen are therefore, in my opinion, very often unjuftly 

 cenfured for doing what humanity requires. This hofpltable ala- 

 crity to affift and befriend their countrymen, in a place where they 

 might otherwife become deflitute of fupport, and fick of life, pro- 

 duces likewife an event very favourable to the colony, by inviting 

 into it frequent recruits of very able haiids, who add not a little to 

 its population and ftrength. The offspringof this part of Britain are ex- 

 tremely numerousandflourifhingin Jamaica. Ihave heard acomputa- 

 tionmade of no fewer thanone hundred of thename of Campbel only 

 adtually refident in it, all claiming alliance with the Argyle family. 

 There are likewife numbers, who, though related to other noble 

 flocks of the North, deferve much more refpe£l: from their own in- 

 trinfic worth, than from their illuftrious confanguinity. Jamaica, 

 ^ indeed, 



