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The History of the
CHAPTER V.
OF AN ACCOUNT OF THE DIFFERENT ARTICLES OF WEST INDIA PRODUCE, RAISED IN THE ISLAND; THE NUMBER OF SUGAR AND COFFEE PLANTATIONS THEREIN, WITH REMARKS.
THE ſeveral articles of Weſt India produce raiſed in Dominica for commerce are, ſugar, rum, coffee, cocoa, and indigo.
There are not more than fifty ſugar plantations at preſent in this iſland, above thirty eſtates of that deſcription having been abandoned, owing to ſeveral cauſes; and among others, to the imprudence and miſmanagement of ſome of the firſt proprietors of them; and to the great diſadvantages this iſland laboured under, while it was in the poſſeſſsion of the French laſt war.
It
