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 yet that article bears a much higher price in Dominica, than in mot other Englih ettlements. This is alo owing to the want of proper regulations in the fih market; for though there is an act for obliging every fiherman, who catches fih within a certain ditance from Roeau, to bring it there for ale, yet the major part of the inhabitants, who are Roman Catholics, fat the greatet part of the week upon fih; and the fihermen, being all of the ame religion, they contrive to evade this act, by ending the bet part of their fih to their friends, and bring only what they cannot otherways dipoe of to the market. By this means that article is often carce, as well as dear; and on particular fat days, in Lent epecially, the Englih inhabitants are frequently obliged to fat without fih.

It has often been wondered at, that in Dominica there are no Englih fihermen; and that a buines, which is known to be o very advan-