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 The woods of Dominica, which contitute nearly two thirds of the iland at preent, including the parts that are incapable of cultivation, on account of teep and rugged mountains, afford a vat fund of excellent timber: coniting of locus-wood, bullet-tree, matic, cinnamon, roe-wood, yellow-anders, batard-mahogany, iron-wood, everal pecies of cedar, and various other orts of wood, ueful for building houes, veels and canoes, for furniture, for dying, and other neceary purpoes.

In the woods, an awful, yet pleaing olitarines prevails; but that which makes them the more agreeably romantic, is the noie of falling waters, the whitling of the wind among the trees, the inging and chirping of an innumerable quantity of birds among the branches, and the uncommon cries of various kinds of harmles inects, which together with the