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Show v‘<*"""* -‘ in. we. (39) (38) Coffee, and aoo,oco lb. of Cocoa, bei'ides form: Plantations, and Dominica will not only be fecure- Cotton and Indigo. in itleif, but formidable both to Mar/infra and Thing-o is reprefented as one. ofthe finel‘t lflands Guzzda/oupe. All thefe Circumltances of Advan- in the lfi'7e/3-Irzdic'r, and of fiich a Surface that a tage belonging to the ceded Illands in general, 'cry {mall if any Part of it is unfit for Cultivation. and to eacn in particular being coniider'd ; and not only unclear'd Lands, but great Quantities 5!. Vincent; is more hilly, but the cultivable Land is excellent, and fo much is already clear'd as to yield it is reckon°d about 400001. annually -, yet this is but a very iinall Proportion ofthe cul‘ tivable Land in the lfland. Still more is clear'd in Dominica whole prefent Produce is valued at near double that Sum ; but the mol‘t material Ad- vantage is Prime Expert's Bay, which is capable of receiving and lheltering thelargefl Ships, and which will certainly be the principal StatiOn of the Britifla Fleet in all fubfequent Wars, on A0count of the Situation of the Ifland. It lies be» which have been clear'd, and belong'd to Franc/2 Inhabitants who have left or will leave them, or to religious Communities, who cannot be allow'd to hold them by Leale or in any Manner what- foever, being to be fold; his Majefiy's gracious Gift to the Public will appear to be an Object worthy or [it's Generofity, and of the Gratitude of his People. . The feveral Steps ahove-mention'd with-Rem fpeé‘t to the Settlement of our new Acqmfitions, tween Alariirzizo and Guadaloupe, and its Cruifers both in xiii/grim and the iVifl-Indz'er, feem to me to have been {ojudicioufly taken, that in all 1?"? can always intercept the whole Heme/J 'l‘rade, be- liability thele Accefiions to the Briti/b. Dominion, tween thofe their principal Settlements : lt ise- will in a few Years be peopled, cultivated, and qtially convenient for protecting the Bri/iflz l- ilands againll the Depi‘edzttions of Privateers, or more formidable Attacks: It is itlfielt naturall in every Refpect in the fame Situation as our lorThey will be incorporated into met Pollefiions, and Precipices, and particular Attention is fhewn the general Syf'tem of the Briziflz Colonies, be affected by the fame Circumf'tances, and the Objects of the fame Regulations. Their great In- inflhls h/lajelly's l'roclai ration to the Peculiarity tcrefis too will be the lame, and thofe are alfo the ct its Situation, by directing that the Lots which in the other Iilands are in general to contain from dearefl; lnterefis of Great Britain ‘, for to imagine that they can ever be lepai'ated, much lefs that one to three hundred, vi‘ithi'ome few of five hun- they can l'tand in Competition, is anarrow, fuper- dretl Acres, {hall in this be for the molt Part confined to between fifty and an hundred, but {hall- ficial Idea. The Briliflz Empire in Europe and in never exceed three hundred Acres: By which Pro‘ are llill the fame People ; and all equally part1Cipare in the Adverlity or Prolperity of the whole. ilrong, full of Polls, Defiles, Gullies, Rivers, vihon a greater Number of Whites will be lettlcd there than ii the Lands were divided into larger flan: flmrrz‘ca is {till the famePOWer : Its Subjects in both Partial Advantages that oppoled the general Goolii ' wou Pillllli |