it is owing, that there are ſo very few good ſchool-maſters, or other proper perſons, to form the minds of youth in the Engliſh iſlands; as the encouragement for ſuch is ſo very trifling, that it is ſeldom worth a man's while to attempt it. Whereas, was the contrary practice more in uſe, there is no doubt but that education would be as attainable in the Weſt Indies, as in any part of Europe, and at a much leſs expence.
The French inhabitants of Dominica are more numerous than the Engliſh; and as before obſerved, have the moſt valuable coffee plantations in that iſland. Their manners and cuſtoms differ but little from the people in the other French iſlands; and their religion is the ſame, for they are all Roman Catholics.
They have ſeveral chapels in the iſland, but the principal one is in the town of Roſeau. This is built of wood, and is neatly ornamented in the inſide with an altar-piece, hangings, paint-
