to too frequent rains, occaſioned by the extenſive woods.
Cotton trees thrive extremely well in the land on the ſea-coaſts of Dominica, but the cultivation of them is, at preſent, wholly neglected; as is alſo that of ginger. The latter having been formerly planted in eſtates that are now abandoned, it grows there ſpontaneouſly, and in great luxuriance.
The caſſia-fiſtula, and caſtor-oil nut trees, are both raiſed on ſome plantations, but very little of the produce of either is exported. The caſſia-fiſtula was conſidered by the French as ſo valuable an article, that ſoon after they were in poſſeſſion of Dominica laft war, an ordinance of the French King was proclaimed in Roſeau, for every planter in the country to give in an account of the number of caſſia-fiſtula trees he had growing on his eſtate.
