a few pews; but neither altar-piece, hangings, baptiſmal font, belfry, nor bell. This, the only Proteſtant church in the iſland, is built on a large lot of ground, has a good church-yard of very deep and excellent black mould; but the yard is not enclofed. Adjoining to it is a fine lot of land, which was laid out in the plan of the town, and reſerved by the Commiſſioners, for the purpoſe of building thereon a public ſchool; but it is at preſent appropriated to a quite different uſe.
The market-houſe has been erected ſince the reſtoration of the iſland to the Engliſh, and is of wood, built on pillars of ſtone, between which are apartments for the butchers and fiſhermen, and the public ſtocks for confinement of diſorderly white people and negros; and the middle paſſage is for the loaded fiſh canoes, that they may be drawn up out of the heat of the ſun while the fiſh is ſelling. The upper part of this building
