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T is greatly to be lamented, that although the iland of Dominica is o very capable of being rendered one of the chief, if not the bet, the Englih have in the Wet Indies; yet, from a want of knowledge of its importance, or inattention, it is at this time almot as much unettled, as when it was ceded to Great Britain, near thirty years ago.

This is the more remarkable, from the great conequence the poeion of it is to the Englih, in cae of a rupture with France, it being the key of the Britih dominions in that part of the world, and from its ituation between the two principal ettlements of the French, Martinique and Guadeloupe, it is the only place in the Wet Indies, by which there is a poibility for Great Britain to maintain the overeignty of thoe eas.

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