Book I. Jland of BARBADOS, 
The greater the Heat, the longer it is continued, the more obvious 
will its Effeéts be ; Livelinefs and Adtivity will be remarkable where this 
Difpofition is moderate, as it isin the We/?-India Mlands, which enjoy 
the Benefit of the Trade-Winds, and moift Vapours; but where fuch 
Breezes are wanting, long-continued Heat, fuch as they feel in Spain, is 
capable of abforbing every thin Fluid ; and, confequently, fuch a Difpo- 
fition of the Juices inclines to Penfivenefs, Referve, and often deliberate 
Revenge. 
Add to this what I before hinted at, with regard to the We/-Indies, 
that Habits, efpecially fuch as have been early indulged to our depraved 
Nature, have a great Share in forming our future Condué in Life. 
This leads me to obferve, that Children, in thefe We/-India Mlands, 
are, from their Infancy, waited upon by Numbers of Slaves, who, in 
their moft unwarrantable Condué& (unhappy for both!), are obliged to pay 
them unlimited Obedience ; and as, in thefe tender Years, their natural 
Appetites are flronger than their Reafon, when they have thus their 
favourite Paflions nourifhed with fuch indulgent Care, it is no Wonder, 
that by Degrees they acquire (unlefs happily prevented, or corrected, by 
the good Examples of Parents, or Education) an overfond and felf-fuf- 
ficient Opinion of their own Abilities, and fo become impatient, as well 
as regardlefs, of the Advice of others. 
And, as this is a Matter of Faét, unhappily verified by numberlefs 
Inftances, it is not furprifing, if, in Minds thus early indulged in the Gra- 
tification of their Appetites, and’ too often undifciplined by the Reftraints 
of Education, we fometimes find the irafcible Paflion domineering, and 
infolently triumphing, over Reafon: Nor can fuch an Influence be wor- 
thy of Surprize, when we confider, that Habits and Cuftoms leave deep 
Traces, and lafting Impreffions, upon the more folid Structure. of the 
human Frame. : 
_A notorious Inftance of this kind is mentioned by Heredotus, who fays, 
that, pafling by Pelufium, where there had been fought, many Years patt, 
a bloody Battle between the Perfians and the Egyptians, the Skulls of the 
Slain, on each Side, being ftill in different Heaps; he found, upon Trial, 
that a ftrong Blow could not eafily break thofe of the Egyptians, whereas 
thofe of the Perfians, by the conftant Warmth of their Turbants, fcarce 
ever feeling the Variety of the Seafons, were fo very tender, that they 
did not refift the leaft Blow. 
From hence Herodotus (15) juftly attributes the Hardnefs of the Eg yp- 
tians Skulls to the Habit of that Nation, whofe Cuftom it was to fhave 
E their 
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ch fe PW Tepotev xcgaral ein acdevies ETH, wee, Gd Stres Ligo uérn Barser, Sie legviets* ade we Aiyorfior sre 
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Ber abriov iqveds gopesiv Tes nepaads: Téiot de Tléponos OTs adevias goptyol, ati Tide oxintesgivos JE dpriie, 
aides tidpas 7s gopsov]es. Herod. Thalia, Cap. XII. Edit. Gale. : 
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