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of which was the Commandant’s office, a small incom¬ 
modious room, which served as a residence for the Com¬ 
mandant’s clerk, as well as the Police Office. Adjoining 
this, and under the same roof, were the superintendent’s 
quarters; a little further on, those of the Commissariat 
officers,—good enough for a single man, but much too 
confined fora family. The Commissariat office adjoined. 
The master-shipwright’s quarters followed next. 
The remainder of the buildings in the row consisted of 
the bakehouse, the tan-yard, and the gaol; the latter, 
a miserable small place, containing one room and three 
solitary cells. 
After going through a turn-stile, we arrived at the 
military barracks, well fenced in all round, with a pro¬ 
jecting or look-out spot in the rear. The buildings in 
the enclosure comprised a guard-house and two good 
barrack rooms. — 
The chaplain’s quarters,—a neat cottage,—and a long 
building containing, under the same roof, the quarters 
of the commandant, of the subaltern officer, and of tho 
surgeon, completed the inhabited part of the island. 
On a hill at the back of the last-mentioned houses 
was situated the look-out-house, a neat room surrounded 
by a verandah. The signal-man’s duty was no sinecure: 
he had to be constantly on the look-out, either for a 
signal at the heads, or for fires (the usual signals of 
alarm), or for a boat, to watch the approach of rafts 
accidents to boats, &c. On his vigilance the lives of 
many hundreds might depend, and the least neglect was 
most severely visited. 
From hence to the north end of the island, the land 
was laid out in potato grounds, gardens, and grass-plots, 
with neat gravel walks. On a hillock, covered 
with a fine coat of clover, there was a small octagon 
room, witli circular openings on each side, for the same 
