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added, as a neceflary imfrovement to compleat ir. Behind is a 

 fmall fqviare garden, laid opt in dry walks, and planted with Seville 

 orange, genip, and other fruit-trees, with feme flowering (hrubs 

 intermixed ; but it is not fo well cultivated as to merit a further 

 defcription. Adjoining to it are two little fquare courts, furrounded 

 with the old buildings, which comprehend feveral lodging-rooms, 

 the private fecretary's office, a large fervants hall, kitchen, and 

 other convenient offices. South of the whole is a fpacious area, 

 environed with the llables, coach-houie, granary, &c. and this area 

 communicates with the parade, or great fquare, by a large gate- 

 way. All the apartments and offices belonging to the houfe are 

 extremely commodious and airy. In iliort, I believe there is no 

 one of all the colonies where the commander in chief is lodged in 

 a manner more fuitable to his convenience, and the dignity of his 

 rank. Oi\ the oppofitc fide of the parade, direftly fronting the go- 

 vernor's houfe, is a coloflal buildiii^v.4y;ei2xxl„JiJkeA¥ii'a..by. the id^^ 

 bitants of the ifland at a very great expence : it was begun about 

 feventeen or eighteen years ago; but is not yet_com|)leted, nor. pro- 

 bably ever will be. It puls'^ijs' in mind of the gentleman's beard, 

 defcribed by Martial, that grew under the operation of a bungling 

 barber; the half tirft-fliaved called again for the razor before the 

 other half was finiflied. This huge pile of brick and mortar is 

 rudely raifed into two ftorics. Below is an arcade of large extent, of 

 fixteen circular arche?, and one elliptical in the centre, of ruflic 

 work, upon the top of which is a lofty pediment raifed upon four 

 Doric columns. The body of the building is retired, to afford an 

 open gallery, fecured by a balluftrade, and floored with pitch pine- 

 boards, very badly adapted to the climate, where the rain and fun 

 are fb deftru6live to wood-work thus expofed. The upper flory is 

 afcended by a large (lair- cafe, which divides from the flrft landing 

 into two branches, both terminating at the two ends of a fpacious 

 lobby ; the South end opens into the aflembly-chamber and fpeaker's 

 room ; the other end, into the court-houfe and jury-room ; and the 

 front, into the gallery. Below are ranged the feveral offices of the 

 ifland fecretary, provoft-mardial, regifler in chancery, and clerks of 

 the crown and court ; for the ufe of which, as they coil fomewhat 

 annually in repairs, thefe officers pay to the public ;i certain mo- 

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