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the upper part of it, being included in the map of that town. It is a large building of wood, built after the French manner in the Weſt Indies, two ſtories high, with galleries all round, and joiced. It ſtands in the middle of a large lot of ground, ſurrounded with a low ſtone wall, has a very fine garden at the back of it, and in front a long gravelly walk, very prettily ornamented on each ſide with cocoa-nut and other trees, which gives it a very rural appearance from the ſea-ſide.

The Court-houſe is a neat wooden building, on the next lot of land to the Government-houſe to the ſouthward. This building is two ſtories high, has a neat portico on pillars in front, and large open gallery backwards, the windows of it joiced. In the upper apartments are a large council-chamber, rooms for the juries, and a gallery for the ſpectators, or others having buſineſs at the courts. In the lower apartments are raiſed ſeats for the judges,

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