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 each other, and appear very incommodious and unightly. They are, however, motly well paved, are in general from forty to fifty feet wide, and the town is very pleaantly ituated.

Previous to the capture of the iland by the French, this town contained upwards of one thouand good houes; but the fire which happened there, as before-mentioned, conumed the major part of them; and the ruins till remain, as a memorial of that unfortunate event.

The public buildings in Roeau are, the Government-houe, Court-houe, Secretary's, Regiter's, and Provot Marhal's offices, the church, market-houe, and gaol.

The Government-houe is ituated in Charlotte-ville, which joins to Roeau, or is rather the