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 the upper part of it, being included in the map of that town. It is a large building of wood, built after the French manner in the Wet Indies, two tories high, with galleries all round, and joiced. It tands in the middle of a large lot of ground, urrounded with a low tone wall, has a very fine garden at the back of it, and in front a long gravelly walk, very prettily ornamented on each ide with cocoa-nut and other trees, which gives it a very rural appearance from the ea-ide.

The Court-houe is a neat wooden building, on the next lot of land to the Government-houe to the outhward. This building is two tories high, has a neat portico on pillars in front, and large open gallery backwards, the windows of it joiced. In the upper apartments are a large council-chamber, rooms for the juries, and a gallery for the pectators, or others having buines at the courts. In the lower apartments are raied eats for the judges, a place