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leave their children to the care of a woman far 

 from their own infpedtion : they are not afraid, 

 as fome European women, that their hufband's 

 tendernefs will diminifh, becaufe they have borne 

 the tokens of their mutual affedion; on the 

 contrary, the flame increafes on both parts, and 

 the pleafure of feeing their race perpetuated, and 

 to fee another felf grow up in a little creature 

 which they brought into the world, amply re-» 

 p^ys. the trouble they have of fupporting them. 



The white women, whom we call Creoles^ fol- 

 low in America the European cuflom, difdaining 

 to fuckle their own children j they give them, 

 as foon as they are born, to a tawny or red flave^ 

 without reflecting, that her blood may be cor* 

 rupted. Many able phyficians have demonftra- 

 ted, that the milk has an influence on the incli- 

 nations of the children. I have often feen many 

 an innocent fall a viftim to the irregular life of 

 their nurfes in America •, which is a circumftance 

 fatal to the propagation of the human fpecies. 

 1 leave this fubjedc to the gentlemen of the fa- 

 culty, who will certainly handle it better than 

 aiyfelf. 



X conclude, by afluring you that I am, 6?r» 



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