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DOMINICA.

The Freeport Gazette; or, the Dominica Advertiser.

Was first published in 1765, at Roseau, by William Smith.
It had the king's arms in the title; and was printed weekly,
on Saturday, on a fools-cap sheet, and with new long primer
and small pica types.

In 1767, Smith printed The Shipwreck, "a poem in three
parts: By a Sailor, addressed to his Royal Highness the
Duke of York. Price Two Dollars."

In 1775, a newspaper was published in English and
French, by Jones.