Folly to take off their _Hands_ (or
Negroes) and employ their Care and Time about any thing, that may make
them lessen their Crop of Tobacco.

So that though they are apt to learn, yet they are fond of, and will
follow their own Ways. Humours, and Notions, being not easily brought to
new Projects and Schemes; so that I question, if they would have been
imposed upon by the _Missisippi_ or _South-Sea_ or any other such
monstrous Bubbles.

In their Computations of Time, Weights and Measures both of Length,
Superficies, and Solidity, they strictly adhere to what is legal; not
running into precarious Customs, as they do in _England_. Thus their
Quart is the true _Winchester_, their Hundred is 100, not 112, and they
survey Land by Statute Measure.

Indeed, what _English_ Coin is there, is advanced in Value; so that a
Shilling passes for 14 _d._ and a Guinea goes by Tale for 26 _s._ but
the Current Money is the _Spanish_ which in Reality is about 15 _l. per
Cent._ inferior to our _English_ Coin, as settled by Law; but frequently
the Value of this varies in Respect of Sterling Bills according to the
Circumstances of Trade; Currency and Sterling being sometimes at a
_Par_; but for the Generality 10 _per Cent._ Discount is allowed for
Sterling Bills.

As for Education several are sent to _England_ for it; though the
_Virginians_ being naturally of good Parts, (as I have already hinted)
neither require nor admire as much Learning, as we do in _Britain_: yet
more would be sent over, were they not afraid of the Small-Pox, which
most commonly proves fatal to them.

But indeed when they come to _England_ they are generally put to learn
to Persons that know little of their Temper, who keep them drudging on
in what is of least Use to them, in pedantick Methods, too tedious for
their volatile Genius.

For _Grammar_ Learning taught after the common round-about Way is not
much beneficial nor delightful to them; so that they are noted to be
more apt to spoil their School-Fellows than improve themselves; because
they are imprisoned and enslaved to what they hate, and think useless,
and have not peculiar Management proper for their Humour and Occasion.

A civil Treatment with some Liberty, if permitted with Discretion is
most proper for them, and they have most Need of, and readily take
polite and mathematical Learning; and in _English_ may be conveyed to
them (without going directly to _Rome_ and _Athens_) all the Arts,
Sciences, a