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DOMINICA is well watered, there being upwards of thirty fine rivers in the iland, beides great numbers of rivulets of excellent freh water, but none of the rivers are navigable; yet, in the rainy eaon, they are ometimes very deep and rapid, coming down often in a frightful manner, carrying away coniderable tracks of land, large trees, huge tones, and ometimes houes, into the ea.

The rivers and rivulets are plentifully tocked with excellent fih; the principal of which are, mullets, crocroes, pike, eels, uck-fih, and cray-fih, with which the tables of the inha-