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refults from the . intercourfe of the 

 Whites with the young wenches, who 

 derive no inconfiderable emolument 

 therefrom ; and as child-bearing would 

 put an end to this commerce, they 

 follicitoufly ufe every precaution to a- 

 void conception; and if thefe prove in- 

 effectual, they ever procure repeated 

 abortions, which incapacitate them 

 from child-bearing in a more advanced 

 age, when they are abandoned by the 

 Whites. For effecting this, they have 

 various means ; but the moft artful 

 prepare the mil; Ives by a diet on Ocro's, 

 by which they lubricate the uterine 

 paffages, and afterwards expel their 

 contents uflially by the Senfitive Plant; 

 though in Barbadoes, a vegetable, called 

 by the name of Gulley-root, is com- 

 monly ufed for this purpofe. This un- 

 natural practife is very frequent, and of 

 the higheft detriment to the Planters, 

 whofc opulence muft otherwife be km 



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