The History of the Island of Dominica / Containing a Description of Its Situation, Extent, Climate, Mountains, Rivers, Natural Productions, &c. &c.

CONTAINING
A DESCRIPTION OF ITS SITUATION, EXTENT, CLIMATE, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, NATURAL PRODUCTIONS, &c. &c.
TOGETHER WITH
AN ACCOUNT OF THE CIVIL GOVERNMENT, TRADE, LAWS, CUSTOMS, AND MANNERS OF THE DIFFERENT INHABITANTS OF THAT ISLAND. ITS CONQUEST BY THE FRENCH, AND RESTORATION TO THE BRITISH DOMINIONS.
By THOMAS ATWOOD.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, NO. 72, ST. PAUL’S CHURCHYARD.
M DCC XCI.

IT is greatly to be lamented, that although the island of Dominica is so very capable of being rendered one of the chief, if not the best, the English have in the West Indies; yet, from a want of knowledge of its importance, or inattention, it is at this time almost as much unsettled, as when it was ceded to Great Britain, near thirty years ago.
This is the more remarkable, from the great consequence the possession of it is to the English, in case of a rupture with France, it being the key of the British dominions in that part of the world, and from its situation between the two principal settlements of the French, Martinique and Guadeloupe, it is the only place in the West Indies, by which there is a possibility for Great Britain to maintain the sovereignty of those seas.