be well fortified, and rendered of great ſervice, for the defence of the iſland. The Savanna is a fine extenſive plain, upwards of a mile in extent; is on a tolerable height above the ſea-ſhore, and at a great diſtance from the mountains above it.
The occupying this place by the Engliſh, was ſtrongly recommended to the then Engliſh Miniſtry by General Robert Melville, on the commencement of the laſt war with France; when, had it been adopted, there is every reaſon to believe, that Dominica would never have been attempted by the French; and it is probable, the reduction of all our other ſettlements, in that part of the world, would, by this means, have been prevented.
In the Savanna are large quarries of excellent free-ſtone, fit for every purpoſe of building. Of theſe, great quantities were ſent by
