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Weft India pofleffions. From fituation, and 

 from its fine bay for fhipping, even indepen- 

 dent of its produce, it mull ever be valuable 

 to us, and indeed maybe confidered as the key 

 of the Weft Indies. Some of the Creoles frf 

 the ifland, not barely fenfible of this, commit 

 the excefs of attaching to it a degree of im- 

 portance beyond even England itfelf. — cc What 

 would poor old England do" fay they, " were 

 Barbadoes to forfake her ?" This adage you 

 will believe expreffes only the veneration of 

 the illiterate ; but you will admit that it 

 arifes from a very natural feeling : for thofe 

 who have feen but one fpot readily fancy that 

 to be of the firft importance ! And there are 

 multitudes in Barbadoes who never faw any 

 other foil, and who, no doubt, from the fame 

 laudable fentiment which we fo honor in 

 Britons, regard their native ifle as pre eminent 

 above all others. 



Barbadoes contains a numerous clafs of 

 inhabitants, between the great planters, and the 

 people of colour, a circumftance which forms 

 a ftriking difference between this ifland and 

 the more recent colonies. Of thefe, many are 

 defcended from the original fettlers, and have 



