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but, as far as the most positive assurances can go, 

 since my arrival in Jamaica, I have reason to be- 

 lieve the contrary, and that mulattoes breed toge- 

 ther just as well as blacks and whites ; but they 

 are almost universally weak and effeminate persons, 

 and thus their children are very difficult to rear. 

 On a sugar estate one black is considered as more 

 than equal to two mulattoes. Beautiful as are their 

 forms in general, and easy and graceful as are their 

 movements (which, indeed, appear to me so strik- 

 ing, that they cannot fail to excite the admiration 

 of any one who has ever looked with delight on 

 statues), still the women of colour are deficient in 

 one of the most requisite points of female beauty. 

 When Oromases was employed in the formation of 

 woman, and said, — " Let her enchanting bosom 

 resemble the celestial spheres," he must certainly 

 have suffered the negress to slip out of his mind. 

 Young or old, I have not yet seen such a thing as 

 a bosom. 



January 16. 



I never witnessed on the stage a scene so pictu- 

 resque as a negro village. I walked through my 

 own to-day, and visited the houses of the drivers, 

 and other principal persons ; and if I were to de- 

 cide according to my own taste, I should infinitely 

 have preferred their habitations to my own. Each 

 house is surrounded by a separate garden, and the 

 whole village is intersected by lanes, bordered with 



