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eſpeclally for being fine, neat workers at the needle, and making the beft nurſes, as well as œconomiſts.

In proof of their conjugal fidelity, ſuch a thing is hardly to be heard of as a Creole woman undergoing that ignominious trial for crim. con. ſo frequent in the more polite countries of Europe, where alſo it is too common for the women to form connections with negro men. This laſt is a thing ſo very odious in the opinion of Creole white women in general, that the moſt profligate of them would ſhudder at the bare idea of ſubmitting to it; and there is hardly to be produced an inſtance of the kind in the Weſt Indies.

Withal, ſo very remarkable are the Engliſh Creole women for ſobriety and chaility, that in the firſt inſtance very few of them drink any thing but water, or beverage of lime juice, water, and ſyrup; and in the latter, that

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