ever to clear away in ſome parts of the iſland.
The land of Dominica is quite new, very little of it having been more than thirty years under cultivation, and a great part of it, it is probable, never ſince the creation; the ſoil thereof produces vegetation ſo quick, that it is truly amazing; and this vigour is particularly conſpicuous in the ſugar-cane, for it has been ſeen there of the length of ſixteen feet and upwards, and double the thickneſs that it in general attain in other iſlands.
The lands on the ſea-coaſt have abundantly the advantage of the interior country, for forming ſugar eſlates; but then, they are contiguous to, or are overtopped by vaſt woods, and have not the benefit of an uninterrupted, warm air, which is neceſſary for the growth of canes to any perfection. Beſides, the damps from the woods near them, riſing in heavy
