THE HISTORY, 
CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL, 
OF THE 
BRITISH COLONIES 
IN THE 
WEST INDIES. 
BOOK IV. 
PRESENT INHABITANTS. 
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CHAPTER I. 
Summary account of the Inhabitants of the several 
Islands .— Classes.—Emigrants from Great Britain 
and Ireland.—Predominant character of the European 
residents.—Creoles or Natives.-—Effects of climate .—• 
Character of the Creole Women and Children.—Of the 
people of Colour , and their different tribes or casts .— 
Limitations and restrictions on the Mulattoes and native 
Blacks of free condition.—Their character at length , 
Concluding with an Ode to the Sable Venus. 
T HE present state (1791) of the population 
in the British West Indies appears, on a sura- 
mary of the several accounts given in former parts 
of this work, to be as follows, viz. 
