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the so frequent and violent attacks of the winds, were 
found to answer well the purpose for which they were 
intended: indeed we may add, that, deprived of their 
protecting shelter, not a cabbage could have been grown 
on the island. In the quays were contrived slips for ship¬ 
building, whilst a spacious edifice served for every other 
purpose connected with that part of the establishment, 
whether for preparing the rigging of the vessels or 
building boats : the upper story was devoted on Sundays 
to the performance of Divine service. The dock-yard 
also contained saw-pits, a blacksmith’s shop, and a hut 
for the boats’ crews. 
Next to the dock-yard were two huts, in one of which 
was always kept a good stock of lime. This valuable 
material was at first obtained from shells collected and 
burnt near the heads; but after a time some excellent 
limestone was discovered in Gordon’s River, and a gang 
of men, guarded by a military detachment posted on the 
opposite side of the river, and who kept the provisions, 
was constantly employed in quarrying and burning the 
lime. The other hut was the school-room. 
The penitentiary was formerly a weather-boarded 
building, without security of any kind : Captain Butler 
raised, however, an excellent stone edifice,—strong, 
capacious, and airy. Nearer the water was the lumber¬ 
yard, containing the carpenters’ and other artificers’ 
shops, also the shoemakers’ establishment: a little further 
on stood the Engineer and the Commissariat stores ; the 
latter was a miserable weather-boarded place, too small 
to hold a common supply of provisions. It, however, 
afterwards gave place to a strong and spacious store, built 
on the margin of the water, which circumstance, by 
allowing the boats to discharge at the door, prevented 
much loss by plunder or accident. 
Behind the stores stood a range of buildings, the first 
