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AIN coaft and harbours are excellently well for wood, or tunic, an **** tified, and the feveral forts have conftantly is both used by cabinet-makers and dyers. frong garrifons of regular troops from We may add to these commodities raw France. Befides, the inhabitants are very hides and tortoise-shell, and then our reapopulous, and we find them fo much in ders will have a tolerable comprehension of NUME, CLXV, VOL. XXIV. P all A new and accurate Map of MARTINICO, finely engraved, with an ADDENDA to our Account of that Island, published in our Magazine for December last [Vol. XXIII, Page 302,] wherein the Importance of the French Caribbee Iflands, MARTINICO, GUARDALOUPE, MARIGALANTE, DESEADA, &c. in Point of Trade and Commerce, is properly fated, and the Utility of our Conqueft of them is fully demonftrated. [See an Account of the American Islands, in Vol XVII. of our Magazine, Pages 241 and 312.] MA ARTINICO is without exception the richest, best planted, and strongeft of all the French ifland colonies in America, and its fertility is unquestioned by its very great production of fugar, ginger, and tobacco, the laft of an extraordinary quality. As its extent is larger than Baibadoes, it is therefore by that means accommodated with a great deal of waste ground among the mountains, in which are abundance of cattle running wild, and very many refreshing rivers and brooks of water, as allo feveral very commodious harbours; all which are much wanted in the other islands, efpecially in Barbadoes, where in cafes of hurricanes, which frequently happen in these parts, the shipping often fuffers extremely; the only remedy they have being to put off to fea, and bear out the ftorm at the extremeft hazard. But, by the number of creeks and inlets in Martinico, the whole ifland is accommodated with harbours, and with fufficient fhelter against those sudden tornadoes; and it is very feldom the merchants receive any confiderable damage in their fhipping. As to the damage on fhore, it may be reputed in common with the rest. Those were much mistaken who repre fented this island as only a receptacle of pirates, from whence the buccaneers drew their fupplies of men for their expeditions under Lollonois, and other robbers. Jamaica may be every way chargeable with the fame, and indeed worse, where thofe terrible fellows, Morgan, Sharp, Watlin, and other notorious buccaneers, fitted out their fhips, and took in their ftores for those defperare expeditions. But whoever confiders Martinico in its prefent ftate, will find it an orderly, well governed colony, the inland populous, and thriving beyond any other of the whole Caribbees, Barbadoes only excepted. The land is not only rich and fruitful, but improved with the utmost induftry, and alfo with extraordinary skill. The feacoaft and harbours are excellently well for tified, and the feveral forts have conftantly frong garrifons of regular troops from France. Befides, the inhabitants are very populous, and we find them fo much in NUMB, CLXV, VOL. XXIV. creafed of late, that they now mufter 10,000 fighting men of their militia, exclufive of the garrison foldiers, and they have also between 40 and 50,000 negroes or flaves difperfed over the whole island, among the plantations. The principal commodity the French at prefent raise in the Caribbee islands under their jurifdiction, is fugar, whereas formerly it was tobacco. M. de Poincy was the first who taught them the art of raising the fugar-cane, and curing the juice of it. He was a man of fuch extraordinary genius, that he improved upon the methods then in ufe at Brazil and the Madeiras; the mills he caufed to be erected, were stronger, neater, and better fitted for ufe; and his furnaces likewife were contrived to much greater advantage; fo that he not only introduced it, but carried the art of fugarmaking to a very high degree of perfection. Befides fugar, they raife alfo a great deal of indigo, in which they did not fo foon fucceed as in fugar; which the French writers attribute to the intolerable stench the making of that commodity is attended with. But they were more happy in raifing cotton, which requires very little pains or labour. They alfo cultivate cacao to great advantage, and draw confiderable profit from ginger, caffia, and piemento, which is what we call Jamaica pepper, or all-fpice, of which they export confiderable quantities. They likewife manufacture rocou, for the ufe of dyers, and fend home variety of medicinal gums, and wet fweet-meats of feveral kinds. These islands produce also several kinds of valuable woods, which are used for dying, inlaying, and cabinet-work; fuch as rofe wood, which, when wrought and polished, has a very beautiful appearance, as well as fine finell. The Indian wood is alfo of the fame nature, and the iron wood, fo called from its being exceffively hard, is esteemed preferable either to cedar or cyprefs; brazil wood they have in great quantities, and braziletto, yellow wood, or fuftic, and green ebony, which is both used by cabinet-makers and dyers. We may add to these commodities raw hides and tortoife shell, and then our readers will have a tolerable comprehenfion of P all |