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 Nor is the market of Roeau, in general, well upplied with poultry, owing to the very blameable neglect of the generality of the planters, in not raiing a ufficient quantity of feathered tock on their etates, of which they are o very capable. It is, however, well upplied with excellent fih of mot kinds peculiar to the Wet Indies; vegetables and fruit of almot every decription are to be had there, in great abundance, much cheaper and better than in mot of the other ilands.

Sunday is the chief market day there, as it is in all the Wet Indies; on this day the market is like a large fair, the negros from the plantations, within eight miles of Roeau, come thither in great numbers, each one bringing omething or other to dipoe of for himelf, often to the amount of three or four dollars; and many of them, who bring kids, pigs, or fowls, eldom return home