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 upple-jacks, which, if cut in the proper eaon, are very durable, and o pliant, that both ends may be bent together without breaking them. Thee being in general regularly knotted, and of a good polih, are much admired for walking-ticks, or to ue on horeback intead of whips; for both which purpoes many of them are frequently ent to England, where they are well known.

Among other valuable trees in the woods of Dominica is the gum-tree, which yields great quantities of that article. The circumference of the body of this tree is generally very great, and its timber is, on that account, made into canoes; which is done by digging or burning out the inide, and haping the log into form. The gum falls from the body and branches of the tree in great quantities, in ubtance like white wax, and was very erviceable to the planters of that iland, during the time it was in