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 ever to clear away in ome parts of the iland.

The land of Dominica is quite new, very little of it having been more than thirty years under cultivation, and a great part of it, it is probable, never ince the creation; the oil thereof produces vegetation o quick, that it is truly amazing; and this vigour is particularly conpicuous in the ugar-cane, for it has been een there of the length of ixteen feet and upwards, and double the thicknes that it in general attain in other ilands.

The lands on the ea-coat have abundantly the advantage of the interior country, for forming ugar elates; but then, they are contiguous to, or are overtopped by vat woods, and have not the benefit of an uninterrupted, warm air, which is neceary for the growth of canes to any perfection. Beides, the damps from the woods near them, riing in heavy fogs,