there are few of them to be ſeen among the looſe wantons of the ſex in the Weſt Indies; the generality of the white women of that deſcription being actually compoſed of adventurers from Europe, or of ſuch as have followed the army and navy to the iſlands.
This laſt circumſtance is, in my opinion, a clear refutation of that too generally received notion, that women in particular, in warm climates, are given to inordinate deſires; and proves to a demonſtration, that ſuch paſſions are not owing to the climate, but rather to a too warm conſtitution, which, aided by luxury, too often gives itſelf up to ſatisfying its own depraved appetites, againſt every ſenſe of decency, and conſideration of duty.
Theſe obſervations lead me to the diſcuſſion of another ſubject, of equal importance; namely, that of education peculiar to the Engliſh Weſt India iſlands. This,
