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 The town of Roeau is at preent the capital of the iland, and is ituated in the parih of Saint George, being about even leagues from Prince Rupert's Bay. It is on a point of land on the S.W. ide of the iland, which point of land forms two bays, viz. Woodbridge's Bay to the north, and Charlotte-ville Bay to the outhward.

Roeau is about half a mile in length, from Charlotte-ville to Roeau river, and two furlongs in breadth, but les in ome parts, being of a very irregular figure. It contains not more than five hundred houes, excluive of a number of mall wooden buildings, occupied by negros, which give it rather an unpleaing appearance from the ea.

The treets of this town are alo very irregular, not one of them being in a traight line; but the whole of them form very acute angles, which face nearly the entrance of each