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THE everal articles of Wet India produce raied in Dominica for commerce are, ugar, rum, coffee, cocoa, and indigo.

There are not more than fifty ugar plantations at preent in this iland, above thirty etates of that decription having been abandoned, owing to everal caues; and among others, to the imprudence and mimanagement of ome of the firt proprietors of them; and to the great diadvantages this iland laboured under, while it was in the poesion of the French lat war. It