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figures, no features, and a want of remarkableness all over them; this is the most numerous division, and includes the bulk of the sex. The third sort are certainly pretty, taking that word in its most restricted sense. These have sparkling black or hazel eyes, olive or perhaps five per cent, of fair faces, neat shapes, inexpressive feet and legs, soft voices, and agreeable manners. Of course there are the usual exceptions, the rarte nantes, but upon an average the scale of beauty in France does not ascend higher than this*. Now, reader, if you are an Englishman, (for I know nothing about the Scotch and Irish,) think over your own family, your sisters, or perhaps you have a cousin or s o , . I love a cousin; she is such an exquisite relation, just standing between me and the stranger to my name, drawing upon so many sources of love and tying them all up with every cord of human affection almost my sister ere my wife ! And what has all this to do with St. Vincent's ? Nothing, absolutely nothing, but surely it is as well as a modern Thebaid or even a North Georgia Gazette. One thing disgusted me much; I allude to the practice of working runaway, riotous, or convict slaves in chains in the public street of Kingstown. I do not mean that any bodily * I do not include the Genevese in this account. Some of them are beautiful indeed.