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“of the island were such a system of training established. If 
“agriculture were taught in the schools throughout the island, 
“is dependent for its prosperity entirely on agriculture.” 
LAYOU FLATS. 
302. One part of Dominica is particularly well suited for being 
successfully opened for new industries. This is an extensive 
istrict almost in the centre of the Island, known as the Layou 
and Sara Flats. I visited bats ces in stn and again this year. 
The country is broken u o ravine d low mountain slopes, 
but is evidently well amera for omiani of cultivation. A ful 
almost every riara of tropical produce. Dr. Nicholls enumerates 
twelve valuable timber trees found abundantly in the forest, and 
adds (see Kew Bulletin, 1891, pp. 116—117): “The forests of 
t 
s erty that the tare wood fede of Dominica preponderate 
ene over the fast growing and soft conic kinds. 
s to be remembered that in these districts the lands are 
not exhausted lands. They are virgin soils that have hardly been 
touched. these grounds it is difficult to realise that so fertile 
both by the mother county and by those seeking employment and 
a suitable investment for capital in tropical industries. This can 
only be attributed to attention being directed in other directions 
and to the want of roads and the impossibility of reaching the 
interior, where lie unutilised the richest lands in the West Indies. 
The climate is healthy, the seasons are regular, rain abundant, and 
there is a sufficient labouring population available for al 
immediate purposes. 
