who altogether, including men, women, and children, do not exceed the number of ſix hundred, excluſive of the regular troops ſtationed there. This is indeed a very ſmall number of Engliſh ſubjects for ſo very large and fine an iſland, the value of its poſſeſſion by Great Britain being thereby conſiderably leſſened; for ſo few inhabitants are totally inſufficient to render it of that importance, which it is capable of being, to the mother-country.
The cuſtoms and manners of the Engliſh are much the ſame, as diſtinguiſh the different deſcriptions of the ſame people in the ſeveral parts of Great Britain, from whence they came; and their religious perſuaſions are alſo the fame.
It is much to be lamented, that in the Engliſh Weſt India iſlands in general, there prevails a great averſion to forming matrimonial connections, as colonization is thereby
