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settlers are to be found at the present day, among 

 whom are the Tuckers. Of this family tliere was 

 one lady, who in the days of her youth, was 

 esteemed the " Rose of the Isles ;" but Tom Moore, 

 who sang her praises, whatever may have been the 

 sincerity of his vocal lyre, did not, like the noted 

 Toby, " bear 6fF the belle." The fair one has long 

 since passed away, but she has left a very pretty 

 representative in her granddaughter, who is looked 

 upon as the belle of Bermuda. 



The beautiful lines of the " Snow Spirit," addressed 

 to " Nea," Miss Fanny Tucker, of Bermuda, M-ere not 

 of any avail ; she heeded not the invitation of the 

 amatory bard, " to fly to the region of snow," but 

 seemed to have been content with the silvery bowers 

 and perfumed isle, and preferred being united to 

 a cousin, a gentleman of her family name. 



People of Colour and Native Blacks. — The coloured 

 inhabitants are persons of mixed blood (usually 

 termed people of colour), and native blacks. Of 

 the former, all the difierent classes, or varieties, are 

 not easily discriminated. In the British West Indies 

 they are commonly known by the names of sambos, 

 mulattos, quadroons, and mestizos. Thus a sambo 

 is the offspring of a black woman by a mulatto man, 

 or vice versa ; a mulatto is the offspring of a black 



