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LETTER XXIII. 



Sunday a day cf fejliviiy among the (laves, African dana^ 

 and miific* Remarks of a Scoiti/h luoman on feting the 

 negroes dance. Fracas between a negro man and mioman, 

 l^egro fitneraL Faith of faves in iranf migration after 

 death* Singular expedient to deter them from fuicide* 



BarbadoeSj Feb. 



It is Sunday, and, feparated by the wide 

 Atlantic, I take up my pen to hallow the fab* 

 bath to my friend. Mentally I am every 

 day in your fociety : but on the fabbath I 

 breath a ftill warmer afpiration to dear En- 

 gland, and fandify the wiih that we were, 

 perfonally, nearer. Were you here to parti- 

 cipate them with me, the novel fcenes which 

 occur to my obfervation would have a double 

 intereft, and I fhould find a charm in many 

 things which now convey only a languid im- 

 pre(rion, 



Sunday Is a day of feftivity among the 



flaves. They are paffionately fond of dancing, 



and the fabbath j offering them an interval 



from toil, is, generally, devoted to thtir fa- 



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