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hundred and fifty feet, and beyond this it appears to rife gradually- 

 like a glacis till it attains an elevation of about thirty perpendicular- 

 feet.; and hers a flat begins, which continues the whole length of 

 the harbour, and is covered with coarfe grafs and draggling bufiies,. 

 fuch as are commonly, produced near the fea-fide. 



The level on the Northern point, at the entrance of the harbour, 

 feems much broader than what has been juft mentioned, and ex- 

 tending from two to three hundred yards. Upon this are thirteen. 

 cannon, belonging to a battery that was formerly eredted here. 



The Southern (hore appears likewife to be iron-bound, very fleep 

 and lofty, and covered with brufli-wood", the point on this fide has 

 a fiat of about 150 yards over. 



The entrance is about one mile from the Northern to the Southern 

 point j the channel is upwards of fixtcen fathoms deep, but near in 

 with the Northern /hore there is ground from nine to feven fathorn. 

 Under the Northern battery the anchorage is in fifteen fathom j 

 but fliips in tacking to come to an anchor, are very much expofed 

 to this and another battery erected at the bottom of the harbour. 



The king hz&.four hundred and fifty Negroes employed under 

 the diredlion of an able engineer, in carrying on the fortifications, 

 and other public works. The two batteries above-mentioned are 

 conftrucled at each end of the town. The Southern mounts twenty- 

 one guns J thirteen in one line, and four in each of the flanks-. 

 The Northern has embrazures for thirty-nine pieces of cannon 3 

 within this battery are built forty-feven houfes, difpofed in regular 

 ftreets, each houfe about twenty by twenty-four feet diameter, 

 framed and fliingled; forty of thefe are allotted for foldiers, and 

 the remainder for their officers. There are likev/ife two guard- 

 houfes, one at the Parade near the Southern battery and comman- 

 dant's houfe J the other at the Point where the boats land, and 

 adjacent to the cuftom-houfe, treafury, and king's houfe. 



At fome diftance from the Northern fortrefs, flands, the powder- 

 magazine. 



About fix hundred yards from this fortrefs, to the N. North-eaft 



©f the town, a fandy point fiirctches out into the harboiUj fliutting 



in a very fine bafon of about three quarters of a mile in breadth^ 



in which is excellent anchorage, and where (hips of any biirthei> 



4 may 



