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 Tobacco grows in great perfection, but it is only cultivated by the negroes, who raie it in their gardens for their own ue.

Dominica is, beyond dipute, the mot valuable iland belonging to Great Britain in that part of the world, for the vat quantities and excellency of the fruits and roots of the Wet Indies; uch as plantains, bananas, manioc, or caada, yams, weet potatoes, cuhcuhes, tanias, eddoes, &c, &c. ome of which are not to be found in the other ilands, but which grow pontaneouly in the woods of this. Among thee are, the wild yams, which grow there in great abundance, and were the chief food of the runaway negroes for a number of years, till it became neceary to reduce them.

Alo Guinea corn, Indian corn, and rice, grow extremely well in Dominica; the latter epecially, which being introduced there by the