only in containing a greater proportion of 

 wine. 



JThe- too prevalent Englifli cuftom of 

 $§kfing away the ladies, or, according to the 

 politer term, of the ladies retiring after dinner, 

 for the gentlemen to enjoy their bottle, prevails 

 alfo at Barbadoes ; and, we have thought, 

 even to a greater extreme than in England. 

 They leave us very foon after dinner, and, 

 often, we fee no more of them during the 

 evening. Frequently they do not, even, join 

 us before dinner ; but we find them all affem- 

 bled, at the head of the table, when we enter 

 the dining room ; and, even there, we have 

 little of their company, for the party is often 

 fo badly arranged, that we have fcarcely more 

 of the fociety of the ladies, and the people of 

 tlve ifland, than if we had remaind on board 

 fhip. Inftead of the different perfons being, 

 pleafantly, intermixed, it is too common to fee 

 the ladies grouped together in a crowd at the 

 upper end of the table — the officers and Gran- 

 gers, juft arrived from Europe, placed at one 

 fide, — and the gentlemen of the ifland, who 

 are mutual and familiar acquaintances, at the 

 other fide— implying that it is confidered a 



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