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iv It has moreover many conveniences for the ervice of both an army and fleet, which few other Wet India ilands can boat; and was it to be well ettled with Britih ubjects, would be of material aitance to our other poeions, by furnihing them with many articles of which they very often are greatly in need.

For the purpoe of bringing forth to view thee capabilities of Dominica, the following hitory of that iland is ubmitted to the candid perual of a generous public by the author; whoe chief inducement for writing it, was his hope, that it might be ome mall means of ervice to a country, in which he has pent everal years of his life, and the properity of which, it is his ardent wih to ee peedily promoted.

The hitory of ditant ettlements belonging to Great Britain, it is preumed, cannot fail of being acceptable to every Englihman who wihes well to his country; and however deficient this eay of his may be, in point of erudition, correctnes, or correpondent circumtances, yet, from its being the firt