A. D. 1764. 393 



Grenada contains, by eftimation, 67,4.25 acres, of which above one 

 half was now adually in cultivation, the produce of the year 1762, in 

 fugar efteemed of the bed quality, rum, coffee, cacao, and riielafles, 

 having amounted to /^aoo.ooo *. The interior part is mountainous, 

 and covered with ufeful wood. The ifland contains fix pariflies, in each 

 of which there is a town, about 3500 white inhabitants, and about 

 1 0,000 negro flaves. 



The Grenadillas, or Grenadines, are a chain of fmall iflands extend- 

 ing between Grenada and St. Vincent,- the chief of which, Cariacou 

 and Bequia, produced cotton and cacao. 



St. Vincent is mountainous with a mixture of large trails of good 

 land, efpecially near the fea and on the gentle flopes of the hills. It 

 was partly occupied by the aboriginal Caribs with a mixture of Negroes, 

 fuppofed to be from four to five thoufand in number, who were quite 

 independent, and very jealous of any European fcttlement upon their 

 ifland. There were, however, a good many fettlements made by the 

 French, who were computed to be about 1 300 white people, and 3400 

 blacks. They had a confiderable flock of flieep, horned cattle, and 

 working beafts ; and their principal articles of produce were cacao, 

 coffee, and tobacco. The fame mode of lettlement, propofed for To- 

 bago, is recommended for this ifland ; only that the good will of the 

 independent Caribs and Negroes mufl be feduloufly cultivated, and un- 

 jufl: encroachments upon them mofl: carefully avoided. 



Dominica contains about 300,000 acres of good and fertile land, 

 well watered with 83 rivers or rivulets, fufficient for driving fugar 

 mills ; but it is not ib well adapted for fugar, on account of the moun- 

 tains which almoft entirely cover it. The land already cleared on the 

 coafi; was reckoned about fix thoufand acres, producing annually about 

 1,690,000 pounds of coffee, 270,000 pounds of cacao, and 17,000 

 pounds of cotton, the value of which was above ^^70,000. The num- 

 ber of inhabitants was 171 8 whites, 5872 blacks f, and about 60 fami- 

 lies ot free Caribs. The ifland was already divided by the French into 

 ten diflrlds or parilhes : and the plan propofed for its fettlement was 

 nearly the fame with that for Tobago ; only that, as it Icemcd not 

 equally well adapted for fugar plantations J, and becaufe it lies between 

 the French iflands of Martinique and Guadaloupe, a Itrong population 



• The importance of Grenada, even bcfoic the blacks in Dominica in the year 1763. If holU 



inditntion of regular government in it, may be accounts are conecl, the difference m.iy be lup- 



feen from the account of its exports from 20th pofcJ to proceed from tlie acceflion of Britillvfct- 



January 1763 till 2ctli January 1764, which weie tiers after the conqueft. But he reckons only 



66,579 cwt. of fugar, 2c6 hogllitads of rum, 1574 whites of all ages on llie ill of January 



1,707,305 pounds of coffee, 278,749 pounds of 1778, with 574 free mulattocs and blacks, and 



cacao, 166,686 pounds of cotton, and 2640 hogf- 14,308 Haves. [_HiJl. V. vii, p. 317.] 



heads of melaffes. J Tor many years bypaft Dominica has pro- 



■\ Raynal reckons only Coo whites and 2000 duccd very good fugar and rum. 



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