although it is a taſk which I am by no means competent to, yet I ſhall be happy, if the few obſervations here offered are of the lead uſe to the riſing generation in that part of the Britiſh dominions.
It muſt be confeſſed, that in the Engliſh Weſt Indies education is, in general, too little attended to, owing, in a great meaſure, to the prejudices of the generality of parents, who, coming themſelves from Europe, fancy there is no poſſibility of getting a good education in any other part of the world.
Prepoſſeſſed with this notion, their whole endeavours are to accompliſh it for the benefit of their children; who, in the mean time, are uſually put under the care of ſome old woman, or perſon of the other ſex, equally as unqualified to teach them, merely for the purpoſe of keeping the children out of the way. But it is often the caſe, that after ſeveral years have been ſpent by a child under ſuch tutors,
