The town of Roſeau is at preſent the capital of the iſland, and is ſituated in the pariſh of Saint George, being about ſeven leagues from Prince Rupert's Bay. It is on a point of land on the S.W. ſide of the iſland, which point of land forms two bays, viz. Woodbridge's Bay to the north, and Charlotte-ville Bay to the ſouthward.
Roſeau is about half a mile in length, from Charlotte-ville to Roſeau river, and two furlongs in breadth, but leſs in ſome parts, being of a very irregular figure. It contains not more than five hundred houſes, excluſive of a number of ſmall wooden buildings, occupied by negros, which give it rather an unpleaſing appearance from the ſea.
The ſtreets of this town are alſo very irregular, not one of them being in a ſtraight line; but the whole of them form very acute angles, which face nearly the entrance of
