dious barracks for the officers and ſoldiers; but owing to its bad conſtruction, only two or three of the cannon in it will bear on any particular object; and it is, beſides, entirely under command of all the other batteries of the town on the hills above it.
Melville's Battery, as before obſerved, was the principal place from whence the moſt material ſervice was done, in preventing the French from entering Roſeau on the 7th of September, 1778, This battery has ſome very heavy cannon on it, but the works of it are all gone to decay, and it is at preſent wholly neglected.
Bruce's Hill, which is juſt above Roſeau, has ſeveral fine batteries, with one for mortars, commodious barracks, and ſeveral block-houſes. It had a fine ſtone ciſtern in the time of the French, but which, being built by them, they thought proper to deſtroy and
