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The History of the
CHAPTER VII.
CONTAINS AN ACCOUNT OF THE TRADE OF THE ISLAND, PREVIOUS TO THE REDUCTION THEREOF BY THE FRENCH LAST WAR, WITH A RELATION OF THAT CIRCUMSTANCE; TOGETHER WITH THE ARTICLES OF CAPITULATION BY WHICH IT SURRENDERED.
DURING the ſpace of the laſt five years, prior to the breaking out of the diſturbances in North America, the iſland of Dominica was in a very flouriſhing ſituation. The port of Roſeau, which was then a free port, was reſorted to by traders from moſt of the foreign Weſt India iſlands, as well as from England and North America.
The French and Spaniards purchaſed in this iſland great numbers of negroes for the ſupply of their ſettlements, together with great quantities of merchandize of the manu-
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