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onthe harbour and the mouth of RioCobre, whicli are fit for no other 

 produdion than the Scotch grafs : this is every day brought to the 

 town by water, and fold in fmall bundles, a certahi number for a 

 ryal. Some of the grafs-planters have made upwards of ijoo/. 

 ■ber annum by this commodity. Wood is likewife another article 

 of profit, though not fo confiderable. Near the market-place 

 flands the original court-houfe, which is a merai, inconvenient 

 building, and now difufed as a feat of judicature, being fixed in 

 the noifiefi: part of the town. A building erefted for a free-fchool, 

 lituated in the upper diftrift of the town, being found more airy and 

 commodious, is now made ufe of for holding the quarterly affize- 

 Gourt for this county. The parade is a large, handfome fquare ; 

 on the North -Wefl: fide of it are barracks of brick for the troops 

 quartered here; a very well-defigned and convenient logement for 

 two hundred men and their officers. The front, which contains 

 apartments for the officers, makes a good appearance. The fol- 

 diers barrack Hands detached behind, in a fquare court walled 

 round ; in which are proper offices ; and at one angle a powder 

 magazine belonging to the town. On the South fide of the parade 

 is the church; a large, elegant building, of four aifles, which has 

 a fine organ, a tower and fpire, with a large clock. The tower is 

 well-conftruded, and a very great ornament to the town. The 

 reflor's ftipend, as fixed by law, is only 250/, ; but the furplice-- 

 fees are fo large, that his income is fuppofed at leaft one thoufand 

 pounds per anmwi, Jamaica currency. The county gaol,, a hol- 

 pital for tranfient fick and poor (who are fupported by an annual 

 grant of aflimbly of 300/.), and the free-fchool ,_ have nothing re-, 

 markable in their ftrudure. The land appropriated for the gaol 

 was a plat of two hundred feet by one hundred and fifty ; but only 

 about fixty by fifty were inclofed a few years ago. It had only one 

 apartment for lodging debtors, evidences, and criminals; and that 

 of no larger extent than fifteen by fourteen feet. The walls, which 

 enclofed it on the South-Eaft and Weft, having neither windows, 

 nov gratings, fo effedually excluded the air, that this place of con- 

 finement was rendered extremely unhealthy ; and the diflempers 

 among the prifoners became a matter of ferious concern. In 1761, 

 upon a reprefentation of the ftate of it, the aflembly made pro- 

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