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Farms in Barbadoes termed plantations or efl at es. Poor cot' 

 tagers. Native Barbadians. Their extravagant opinion 

 concerning the importance of the if 'and '. Examples in proof 

 that the negro form and colour are not the mere confequence 

 of climate and locality. 



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As planter here fuperfedes the title of farm- 

 er fo does plantation that of farm. The land 

 is cultivated in a number of divifions, which 

 in Europe, might receive the common name 

 of farms, but in Barbadoes, they are termed 

 plantations, or eftates. Of thefe the diftin- 

 guifhing appellation is not derived from the 

 name of the exifting pofleflbr ; but from fome 

 fpecific title long fince accorded to them, or 

 from the name of the original poffeffor, or of 

 the family to whom they have for many years 

 belonged. Thus a perfon, going to vifit Mr. 

 Hollingfworth or Mr Waith, would not fay 

 he was going to Mr. Waith's, or Mh Hollingf- 

 worth's, but to " Colleton's," or to " Spend- 



