INTRODUCTION.
IT is greatly to be lamented, that although the iſland of Dominica is ſo very capable of being rendered one of the chief, if not the beſt, the Engliſh have in the Weſt Indies; yet, from a want of knowledge of its importance, or inattention, it is at this time almoſt as much unſettled, as when it was ceded to Great Britain, near thirty years ago.
This is the more remarkable, from the great
conſequence the poſſeſſion of it is to the Engliſh, in caſe of a rupture with France, it being the key of the Britiſh dominions in that part of the world, and from its ſituation between the two principal ſettlements of the French, Martinique and Guadeloupe, it is the only place in the Weſt Indies, by which there is a poſſibility for Great Britain to maintain the ſovereignty of thoſe ſeas.
