155 DOMINICA. contrast between the English and French colonists is nowhere more strongly seen than in Dominica. They consider wet or dry weather, each quite exclusive of the other, as healthy, but irregular rain and sunshine usually induces ague and intermittent fevers. W e took our leave of General Nicolay and his accomplished lady at nine at night, rowed to the Eden which had been lying on and off for some time for us, and steered for Montserrat.
Six months in the West-Indies, in 1825
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