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 the pot, with ilent awe and admiration, at viewing o vat a body of water collected at uch a height.

Dominica is likewie well upplied with excellent ea-fih; and the inhabitants have the advantage of procuring their fih almot as oon as caught, and often buy them alive in the market. Among the chief of the ea-fih are, groupers, cavallies, nappers, ilks, baracutas, king-fih, Spanih mackrel, jacks, and prats; the hell-fih are, lobters, conks, wilks, and crabs; all which are fo well known, as to render any decription of them needles. Some few turtles are alo caught at the windward part of the iland; but this article is motly brought hither from the Spanih ilands.

This iland is alo remarkable for land-crabs, of which there are three orts, white, black, and red. The firt are ditinguihable only for their poionous quality, which