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 barracks for the officers and oldiers; but owing to its bad contruction, only two or three of the cannon in it will bear on any particular object; and it is, beides, entirely under command of all the other batteries of the town on the hills above it.

Melville's Battery, as before oberved, was the principal place from whence the mot material ervice was done, in preventing the French from entering Roeau on the 7th of September, 1778, This battery has ome very heavy cannon on it, but the works of it are all gone to decay, and it is at preent wholly neglected.

Bruce's Hill, which is jut above Roeau, has everal fine batteries, with one for mortars, commodious barracks, and everal block-houes. It had a fine tone citern in the time of the French, but which, being built by them, they thought proper to detroy and blew