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the Narrows, to prevent the admission of hostile ships. Several strong batteries on the north side, with Frederick Battery and Fort Amherst on the south, defend the harbour so completely, as to render it perfectly secure against any ordinary attack. The situation of the Crow’s Nest Battery, pitched on the summit of a conical hill, is very striking; and the character of the scenery surrounding the harbour is bold, rugged, and Wild.

Fort Townshend, the usual residence of the go-‘ vernors, stands immediately oVer the town. The ascent to it is steep; but between it and Fort Wil- liam, a distance of nearly three quarters of a mile, ground called “ the Barrens,” approaching somewhat to table-land, with a thin sterile soil, intervenes. Be- tween Fort William and Signal Hill, is St George’s Pond,iat a very great height above high-water mark. It abounds with trout. To the north lies Quidi Vidi Pond, about a mile long, and from which a brook runs into a boat harbour, which communicates with the sea by a gut of the same name, rendered inaccessible to schooners by a rock extending across, and deep on each side. A trifling sum would pay the expense of blasting this rock, and rendering Quidi Vidi an excellent little harbour. Between Quidi Vidi and the Narrows, the coast is rugged, and the hills abrupt and high. A few spots in the neighbourhood of St John’s have, by much labour and expense, been brought under very tolerable cultivation ; and it must be acknowledged that such lands are now of great value, as affording vegetables, hay, &c. Mr Stewart,