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cabin, where we met with a large family of 

 Barbadian cottagers ; and, with all the inqui- 

 fitivenefs of ftrangers, we addreffed the good 

 people in a multitude of interrogatories, and 

 were highly gratified with their replies. They 

 were living amidft the mountains, apparently 

 fhut from the world, and but feldom expofed 

 to the intrufion of ftrangers. The old dame 

 of the houfe was nearly feventy years of age. 

 We found her occupied in playful attentions 

 with two of her grand children — two, offeven, 

 of the offspring of her daughter. Making 

 inquiries refpedting the old woman's hiftory 

 we learned that fhe could trace back her fa- 

 mily in regular lineal defcent, as far as her 

 great grandfather, the fucceffors of whom 

 have never removed from Barbadoes ; fo that 

 the children we here faw, were to a certainty 

 as diftant as the fixth generation, and pro- 

 bably much more remote, in direct defcent, 

 from parents w r ho had always lived in the 

 torrid zone* One of the children was about 

 fix— the other eight years old. In fairnefs of 

 fkin, in feature, and in figure, they might 

 have been miftaken for children born in Eng- 

 land, or any other temperate climate. ( 



