BOOK III. 



Firfl Clafs. Negro 



Weftmoreland, 



Hanover, 



Second Clafs. 



St. Catharine, 



St. Dorothy, 



St. Thomas in the Vale, 



Vere, 



St. Anne, 



St. Andrew, 



Port Royal, 



St. David, 



St. Elizabeth, 



Third Clafs. 

 Clarendon, » 



St. Thomas in the Eail:, 



St. James, 



Thus, of the whole number, only fix appear deficient. I mud 

 own, that fuch general calculations are not entirely to be relied on ; 

 becaufe, in any individual parifli, upon a iurvey of the eflates 

 comprehended in it, (ome will appear to have more tlian their 

 complement, asid others to fall very fhort of it. Much likewife 

 depends on favourable or unfavourable feafons, good or bad ma- 

 nagement. In regard to births, they are probably as many as can 

 be expecled, under the obftacles which I have before enumerated; 

 and, when I fay that any cftate, having the juft proportion of 

 hands to the average quantity of its produce, may require no pur- 

 chafed recruits, I muft be underftood with an exception to fome or 

 otherof thofe obflacles; for, if its women are not numerous enough, 

 or if they are rendered unprolific by difeafe or their own bad prac- 

 tices, or their children precluded from reaching to maturity, no fuch 

 population can of courl'c enfue. It is worth every planter's attention, 

 to encourage the mothers, by little helps, to take good care of 

 their children. Some mark of diftinftion, or a reward, fliould 

 always be allowed to thofe who have fhewn the moil: affiduity in 

 refpedl to their cleanlinefs and health. A premium might be 

 air.gned for every new-born chikl ; and a fmall annuity to be con- 

 tinued 



