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large hall on the ground-floor is tasteful, although 

 not spacious. At the other end, facing the entrance, 

 as is customary in State and Court-houses, there are 

 raised seats in the form of an amphitheatre designed 

 for the meetings of the high courts. For the rest, the 

 building has space enough for the rooms of the Pro- 

 vincial Assembly, the Senate, Executive Council, Gen- 

 eral Court for the Eastern-Shore, Intendant for the 

 Revenue &c. Next the State-house is a little building 

 of one storey meant for the publick treasury. It is 

 said to be a very strong and fast building; doors and 

 windows I saw well-barred and fixed but with all 

 this the house is empty. The real Treasuries of this 

 province, throughout the war, were the tobacco-ware- 

 houses ; the taxes for the most part being assessed and 

 paid in tobacco and other produce, because the people 

 had no hard money and unfortunately have none still. 

 At one end of the town stands the house in which the 

 Governor lives, but another building, of an extensive 

 plan and designed for the Governor's residence, was 

 before the war begun by Governor Blagden, but not 

 finished, the Assembly judging the plan too costly; 

 the bare walls remain, known as the Governor's Folly 

 in memory of him. The streets of the town run almost 

 all of them radially towards a common central point 

 which is the State-house. They are not yet paved, and 

 with the sandy soil this occasions great inconvenience 

 in summer. Annapolis boasts of a play-house but of 

 no church, as indeed in everything regarding luxury 

 the town is inferior to no other and surpasses the most. 

 Shortly before the war money was collected for build- 

 ing a very handsome church, but the amount was later 

 applied to bloody purposes, and worship since has been 



