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The prices in 1832 were-Sugar, 15s. 6d. per cwt.; Rum, ls. 2d. per gall.; Molasses, 8d. per gall.; Coffee, 54s. per cwt.; Cocoa, 21s. per cwt.; Cotton, 52s. per cwt.

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.-The Weights in use are the French pound and quintal; the pound=2 marc (Paris); the marc = 8 oz.; the oz. = 8 gros; the gros 72 grains; the quintal = 100 French lbs. ; the French lbs. = 17 oz. 9 dr. English; quintal of 100 French lbs. = 109 English.

The Measures are (land or square measure); the carré, containing 3 acres, 78 perches, 28 feet square (Paris measure) or 10,000 square paces; the acre = 100 square perches, or 2644 paces, 11 feet; the perch =26 paces, 5 feet, 72 inches square, or 9 square toises; the square toise = 36 square feet, or 2 paces, 11 feet, 72 inches square; the square pace = 12 square feet, and 30 square inches; the square foot 144 square inches; the square inch = 144 square lines, (long measure); the toise 6 feet French; the foot 12 inches; the inch = 12 lines; the French foot 12 inches British; (cloth measure) the aune or ell = 3 feet 8 inches; and it is subdivided into one-half, one-third, one-fourth, and one-eighth; the ell = 1 yard 10 inches. (Wine measure) gallon 2 pots; 1 pot 2 pints (Paris measure), 1 pint = 2 chopines; 1 chopine = raquils; 1 raquil = 2 muces. (Dry measure) the barrel 44 quarts, or 55 pots; the half barrel 27 pots; the quarter ditto 13 pots; the half quarter ditto 67 pots.

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FINANCE. The revenue of the colony is derived from custom duties, a capitation tax, licences, fines, stamp duties, &c. The only consecutive years of revenue and expenditure before me are :

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MONIES.-Accounts are kept in pounds, shillings, and pence; but the value of the circulating medium is thus stated ;-12 deniers = 1 sol; 2 sols and 6 deniers = 1 dog; 6 dogs or 15 sols = 1 bit; 8 dogs or 20 sols = 1 livre; 9 livres = 1 current dollar; 10 livres = 1 round dollar; 20 livres = one pound currency. There is no paper-money in circulation.

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GOVERNMENT, &c.-The inhabitants have their affairs administered by a governor and council, with French laws, where they are not adverse to the British. There is a public school at Castries, with twenty-two male scholars, taught on Dr. Bell's system; and there are two private schools, at which the French language only is taught.

BOOK V.

DOMINICA.

CHAPTER I.

LOCALITY- HISTORY -ASPECT GEOLOGY CLIMATE

POPULATION RESOURCES -COMMERCE
GOVERNMENT, &c. &c.

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THE island of Dominica is situated in 15° 25′ north, 61° 15' west, about twenty-nine miles in length and sixteen in breadth, and containing 275 square miles, or 186,436 acres.

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HISTORY.-The discovery of this island was made by Columbus, on Sunday the 3d of November, 1493, and so named by the great navigator. It was the first land seen on his second voyage, after having been twenty days at sea from the Canaries. right of occupancy was claimed by the three kingdoms of England, France, and Spain; but the right of possession remained undecided, and Dominica was considered a neutral island by the three crowns till the year 1759, when, by conquest, it fell under the dominion of Great Britain, and was afterwards ceded to England by the treaty of Paris, February, 1763. On the cession of the island to the English, commissioners were appointed under the great seal, and sent

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