however, has, of late years, been ſeldom the caſe, on account of the difficulties to which American veſſels are ſubject in their trading with this iſland, ſeveral of them having been repeatedly refuſed admittance into the port with only that loading.
This has often greatly diſtreſſed the inhabitants of Dominica, who having few cattle of their own, and theſe few being neceſſary for the ſervice of their plantations, it would have been highly imprudent to have uſed them for the purpoſe of ſupplying the market; as it would have impoveriſhed their eſtates of thofe uſeful animals, without the leaſt probability of getting them replaced by purchaſing others: for the Americans, from having been ſo often refuſed admittance to diſpoſe of their cargos of cattle, took ſo great a diſguſt againſt the inhabitants of the country, that even when they have had permiſſion to trade thither, they have actually refuſed.
