which is rather a ſignal poſt; the other batteries on the ſea-coaſts, at a diſtance from Roſeau, being of ſmall importance for the defence of the iſland, ſave only the works now raiſing at Prince Rupert's Bay.
This laſt is in the pariſh of Saint John, on the north-weſt part of the iſland, diſtant about ſeven leagues from the town of Roſeau. The bay is three miles acroſs, and one and a half deep, that is to ſay, from the extremity of each point, to the ſhore of the land laid out for a town. In this bay the whole of the Britiſh navy may ſafely ride at anchor all ſeaſons of the year, and be well ſupplled with neceſſaries not be found at Engliſh harbours in Antigua, or any other part of the Engliſh Weſt Indies, the rendezvous of the Britiſh fleet. It is ſurrounded by two high mountains, called the Cabrittes; the inner of which is about five hundred, and the outer ſix hundred feet perpendicular; both of them are out of the reach of other heights.
