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ings, which I fhall particularly fpeak of. The church is fituated /2, ^/■'* y<7 J 

 in the South-Eaft quarter of the town, near the eiuinnce c.Q miii2LIl ., t/^ 

 frornJPaflage_Eqrt. It is an elegant building of brick, in form of ^^.' 



a crofs, confifting of four ailes, of which the main aile meafures 

 one hundred and twenty-nine feet in length, and twcnty-niiie in 

 breadth. As it is without a tower, the congregation is fummoned 

 by a fmall bell hung in a wooden frame, which is erei£lcd in the 

 church-yard; the pulpit, pews, and wainfcotting, are of cedar 

 and mahogany ; and the ailes for the mofl; part paved with marble. 

 The altar-piece is handfome, and adorned with carved work ; and 

 the decalogue in gilt letters : fronting it, at the Weft end of the 

 main aile, is a gallery fupported on columns, and furnifhed with 

 an exceeding fine organ, which coft 440/. fterliiig, and was fet up 

 in the year 1755. The organift has a falary of \zo I. per annum 

 currency, paid by the parifhioners, and receives other emoluments, 

 his affiftancc being generally required at the funeral obfequies even 

 of the free Negroes and Mulattoes buried in this parifh. The 

 cieling is neatly coved, and graced with two magnificent chandeliers 

 of gilt brafs; and the walls are hung with feveral monuments of 

 marble, plain, but well-executed. The governor's pew is diftin- 

 guifhed from the reft by being raifed higher, and crowned with a^ 

 canopy. The two chandHicrT^ were The gift of pHyat^ \ 



and part of the communion plate, I have been told, was plundered 

 from a Roman catholic church fome years ago, at the attack of 

 Port Louis, in Hifpaniola: it has more of grandeur than elegance 

 in its tailiion. The building was ereded in two years, at the f~ \ ^ 4-! 

 pafbchial expence, on the foundation of the former one^ which '/ 

 J was irreparably damaged by the'Tiurricane of Auguft, i^i?*^,^^-.. 

 -About the year 1762 it received a thorough repair, and at 

 prefent yields to none in the ifland for a becoming ncatnefs. 

 The provifion made for the redor confids of a very convenient 

 dwelling-houfe in the town; fixty acres of rich pafture-land, 

 within a fmall diftance of it, the donation of Mr. Edward Morgan 

 in 1674; and upwards of five hundred acres in the neighbour- 

 hood, patented in the i'ame year " for the ufe of the parifh of Sr. 

 " Catharine, towards the maintenance of the minifter:" but this 

 latter parcel has not as yet been appropriated to the original defign ; 



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