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 a few pews; but neither altar-piece, hangings, baptimal font, belfry, nor bell. This, the only Protetant church in the iland, is built on a large lot of ground, has a good church-yard of very deep and excellent black mould; but the yard is not enclofed. Adjoining to it is a fine lot of land, which was laid out in the plan of the town, and reerved by the Commiioners, for the purpoe of building thereon a public chool; but it is at preent appropriated to a quite different ue.

The market-houe has been erected ince the retoration of the iland to the Englih, and is of wood, built on pillars of tone, between which are apartments for the butchers and fihermen, and the public tocks for confinement of diorderly white people and negros; and the middle paage is for the loaded fih canoes, that they may be drawn up out of the heat of the un while the fih is elling. The upper part of this building is