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the end of a word, or a fentence. " How you 

 do to da — ayT fpoken by a Barbadian creole, 

 confumes nearly as much time as might fuf- 

 fice for all the compliments of the morning ! 

 nor is this wearifome pronunciation confined 

 to the people of colour only. It occurs, like- 

 wife, among the whites, particularly thofe who 

 have not vifited Europe, or refided for fome 

 time away from the ifland. In the fame 

 lengthened accent do the lower orders of 

 Barbadians, in unreftrained impetuous rage, 

 pour forth vollies of uncommonly dreadful 

 oaths, which, in their horrible combinations 

 and epithets, form imprecations fo ftrikingly 

 impious, as to entitle them to the merit of 

 peculiarity. 



In manner, alfo, and in movement, as 

 well as in fpeech, a degree of indolence and 

 inadion prevails, beyond what might be expect- 

 ed, merely from heat of climate, and which 

 has in it a fomething extremely annoying to 

 Europeans. 



The ftate of the negroes in Barbadoes 

 varies, as the ftate of flaves muft ever do, ac- 



