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Religious Denominations, &c.

Present State of Religion, &c.

CUBA.

Spanish Catholics, all the natives being extirpated, and the island cultivated by negroes. The capital, Havanna, was reckoned to contain 30,000 inhabitants many years since. Population, half a million. Government, monarchical.

JAMAICA.

JAMAICA.

Church of England, and Pa- Kingston contains about fifty gans, with a legal toleration, of- thousand inhabitants, with only ten impeded by the high-church one small Church! But the zeal of the Colonial Assembly, Methodists have a considerable which is discouraged by the gov-interest here, and the United ernment at home. Population, Brethren two small settlements half a million. Subject to the upon the island.

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Religious Denominations, &c. tween the English, Dutch, and French, were partly protestant and partly catholic-but of late have been all under the British flag: Guadaloupe and Dominique (two of the most populous) are restored to France. Population, 250,000.

WINDWARD ISLES.

Present State of Religion, &c.

ary stations in most of these islands, particularly at Eustasius, Antigua, and Dominique, where they are rapidly on the increase. The United Brethren have also an established and growing interest at Antigua.

WINDWARD ISLES.

Of these Barbadoes, which is The most considerable of these an English and a protestant set-is Barbadoes, which has a poptlement, is far the most populous.ulation of more than 120,000, Under this group I also include Trinidad, the farthest of these Islands towards South America. Population, half a million.

but ill provided for religious instruction. The Methodists and United Brethren have, however, each a small society upon the island. The Missionary Society, and the Methodists, have each attempted to introduce the gos pel at Trinidad, and at Tobago, but with no remarkable success.

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The existence of slavery in all the West-India Islands is almost an insuperable obstacle to the progress of education. As the labour is performed almost whol ly by slaves, the children of their masters are often brought up idleness, and they are not often willing that their slaves should receive any instruction. In some instances, slaves have been in structed, prudently, in the religion of the Bible, much to their own comfort and the benefit of their owners. The present gov ernment of Hayti is a novel and very interesting experiment. At present, civilization, Christianity and education are making a ra pid progress in that empire, and a rational hope is indulged that the experiment will issue in elevating people of colour to an equal rank among civilized nations, and afford a new proof that God hath made of one blood all nations of men.

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PART IV.

PAGANISM.

A VIEW OF THE

IDOLATRY OF THE HINDOOS,

Their History, Literature, Religion, Manners and Customs, &c.

BY WILLIAM WARD, D. D.

OF SERAMPORE.

ABRIDGED FROM THE ORIGINAL WORK IN TWO VOLS. 4to.

TO WHICH IS ADDED

THE

Religion and Ceremonies

OF OTHER

PAGAN NATIONS.

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