I have thus endeavoured to shew that Antigua abounds in schools— the exact number of which will be found in the chapter on statistics. I sincerely hope that the benefits arising from them may be permanently felt by the lower classes, and that the patrons of these schools may reap the reward of their philanthropy. There are some sad examples: (sorry am I to be compelled to say so!) where, instead of improving, education has but tended to lead further into the paths of error; for the very passages of Scripture that have been taught them—the doctrines of salvation which have been inculcated, these unhappy creatures pervert to raise their ungodly mirth. Oh, how do our ears become shocked at every turn of the street, at every hour of the day, by the language of this class of persons! while that great and holy name, “at which every knee shall bow,” is bandied about as a common interjection. There are some to be met with among the negroes whose display of learning is very ludicrous. We have a servant now living with us who often calls up from me an involuntary smile. I heard her speaking the other evening to a fellow-servant, whose name is Diana. “Diana, my goddess! come here. Let me see, Diana was the goddess of _truth_, and Junus the goddess of _sleep_, and so you must not tell me a story, or go to sleep!” Diana did not appear to comprehend this burst of eloquence, and so her friend went on to explain to her, that as “_Airy_ was the ram, and _Callus_ the bull, Virgo was a lion, and Quaris was a water-pot;” she must bow to her superior knowledge in everything. To this, Diana humbly assented with “Ees, Miss Charlotte!” accompanied by a stare of amazement. I don’t wonder, however, at poor Diana’s surprise at her friend’s knowledge; I am sure she often startles me. Another evening, I saw her standing in the yard, with outstretched arms, and upturned eyes, gazing upon a bright star, which twinkled above, while in a very lackadaisical tone, she exclaimed, “Oh, Mars! _invoke_ me by thy rays!”