Island of Dominica.
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CHAPTER III.
0F THE RIVERS AND LAKES IN THE ISLAND, RIVER AND FRESH WATER FISH, ALSO OF SEA FISH, LAND CRABS, AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE NATIVE QUADRUPED, AND OTHER ANIMALS.
DOMINICA is well watered, there being upwards of thirty fine rivers in the iſland, beſides great numbers of rivulets of excellent freſh water, but none of the rivers are navigable; yet, in the rainy ſeaſon, they are ſometimes very deep and rapid, coming down often in a frightful manner, carrying away conſiderable tracks of land, large trees, huge ſtones, and ſometimes houſes, into the ſea.
The rivers and rivulets are plentifully ſtocked with excellent fiſh; the principal of which are, mullets, crocroes, pike, eels, ſuck-fiſh, and cray-fiſh, with which the tables of the
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