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 This is certainly a very high price for that commodity; a pound of river fih, at 1s. 6d. current money, is 10d. terling per pound, at eighty per cent, the preent rate of exchange of money in that iland; and hook and line fih, at 1s. is 6d. terling and a fraction per pound, at the ame rate of exchange, a price which greatly exceeds that of the ame commodity in England, where it is not to be had in uch great plenty as in Dominica, and by no means in o great perfection, epecially in the city of London.

The public goalgaol [sic] in Roeau has been erected ince the retoration of the iland to Great Britain, but it is not yet quite finihed. It is of fine tone, erected in a very healthy ituation, on a large lot of land, and the building on a large cale, is commodious, and well adapted to the deign. The