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 The tamarind trees grow here in great perfection, and the fruit of them is excellent, being much ued in medicine, for which purpoe they are very valuable, and the timber of the trees is very erviceable.

Englih and American apple trees grow well in Dominica, and everal of them are on different plantations in the iland; particularly on thoe of Alexander Stewart, Eq. William Urban Bueé, merchant, and on ome French etates, where the trees bear a juicy, well-flavoured apple.

Alo trawberries, raberries, and everal other European and American fruits grow here in great perfection; proving, beyond a doubt, that was a proper attention to be paid to the further ettlement of this iland, there is hardly any decription of foreign fruits but what would flourih in this country. The