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 height of twenty-one feet perpendicular above its uual furface, and its billows broke upwards of one hundred yards from the common hore. It detroyed everal houes in front of the beach, drove everal mall veels from their anchors, and carried them up into the town; other veels foundered, or were dahed to pieces in the night-time; the dead bodies of the crews, with the pieces of the veels, were driven on hore, and the morning of next day exhibited the mot hocking pectacle of its unbounded fury.

The fortifications of Roeau are, Young's Fort, Melville's Battery, Bruce's Hill Batteries, and Fort Demoullin.

Young's Fort is jut oppoite the Government-houe, from the front wall of which it is eparated only by the highway. It is well mounted with cannon, has a powder magazine, an arenal for mall arms, and dious