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County. 



BOOK II. CHAP. XIII. 



Prefent State of the different Barracks: 



I'aiifl), Situation of Barracks. Number of Troops they can re- 



ceive, exclufive o( Officers. 



300 

 300 

 70 

 70 

 70 

 60 

 60 

 70 

 70 



ICO 



50 



300 



200 



70 



120 



70 

 70 



30 

 70 



100 



47 

 100 

 100 



1220 



9^5 



447 



Total in the three counties, 2572 



Befides thefe, there are feveral old barracks, which were built 

 during the war with the Marons, and are fHU kept in repair ; viz. 

 in Middleiex fix; Surry two; Cornwall three; in all, eleven; 

 which are capable of holding a confiderable body of men, if oc- 

 cafion ihould ever require their being garrifoned [<;?]. A governor 

 once replied, when he was folicited for a party to be quartered at 

 one of the inland barracks, " that his majelty's troops were fent 

 *' hither to guard the coafls, not to proteft the internal diftrifts 

 '« from Negroe infurgents." But it is boped that every admini- 

 firation will not be guided by fo abfurd a policy. The men of pro- 

 perty in this ifland pay an ample contribution, in order that it may 

 be protedted, not fo much from French or Spaniards, as againfl 

 the machinations of the many thoufand flaves, which, in proportion 

 as the fettlements advance further and further into the heart of the 



[rt] Thefe would be moil convenient for receiving the corps of rangers propofed, under the 

 head of " Militia." 



country, 



