HOADS AND BRIDGES. 
The Public Roads have recently under* 
gone a thorough repair, and at the same 
time were considerably widened; they 
extend for many miles round the Town, 
and will, by degrees, be carried through 
all the cultivated parts of the Island. An 
avenue of trees has lately been planted on 
those immediately in the vicinity of 
George Town, which will be continued 
by degrees over all of them. 
In the year 1800, there were nothing 
but Wooden Bridges on the Island, which 
were constantly liable to injury, and fre¬ 
quently carried away by the violent and 
japid rising of the Rivers: there are now 
four very substantial brick and mortar 
Bridges completed, and another just com¬ 
menced; the foundations are composed 
