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 be well fortified, and rendered of great ervice, for the defence of the iland. The Savanna is a fine extenive plain, upwards of a mile in extent; is on a tolerable height above the ea-hore, and at a great ditance from the mountains above it.

The occupying this place by the Englih, was trongly recommended to the then Englih Minitry by General Robert Melville, on the commencement of the lat war with France; when, had it been adopted, there is every reaon to believe, that Dominica would never have been attempted by the French; and it is probable, the reduction of all our other ettlements, in that part of the world, would, by this means, have been prevented.

In the Savanna are large quarries of excellent free-tone, fit for every purpoe of building. Of thee, great quantities were ent by the