Note 15 — LETTER LIV.
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It is probable that our troops might be rendered nearly as effective for service in the West Indies, as in Europe, if it were possible, in all cases, to prepare them for the climate by slow and gradual approaches; as, for instance, by first letting them serve, for a time, at Gibraltar, and afterwards employing them, for a year or two, in the more windward islands, such as Barbadoes or Antigua, before they were sent upon duty to the other colonies.