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THUS fell the important iland of Dominica into the hands of the French; and with it were lot all thoe advantages, that it was afterwards dicovered would have accrued to the Englih, had it been in their poeion during the lat war.

This iland, from its local ituation, being exactly between the two principal ilands of the French, Martinique and Guadeloupe, is the bet calculated of all the poeions of Great Britain in that part of the world, to ecure her the dominion of thoe eas. Had a few hips