-25” captain, one or two lieutenants, an'ensign, a doctor, a com~ missary, and an ordnance store keeper. The barracks were fi two long, low, buildings, situated on the ground reaching ‘ south from the jail square (now Connaught Square), Sydney H Street to Water Street, and including Union Street, south to ' the water. All along that part now called the Esplanade and lower corner of water Street was The Battery of nine guns. Earth works were thrown up six or eight feet high all round on the bank, or water front, and anyone passing along the shore could see the muzzles of the cannons point- ing towards the harbour. The soldiers' quarters backed on and closed up the end of Dorchester, King and part of Water Streets. The ordnance, and nonpcommissioned officers' build—[

ing reached from Water Street northwardly toward Sydney ” Street. The whole Fort was surrounded by a high pointed , picket fence. There was a large double gate opening on the t Jail Square and a sentry marched backwards and forwards con- t tinually. The officers lived in houses nearby. Commissary ;§ Lamont resided in a house later owned by Mrs. J. D. Mason onifi west part of Richmond Street, and Doctor Poole lived at Frog—5 more, on the corner of Rochford and Huston Streets. A numu f ber of retired naval and military officers were also settled I there. Some were comparatively wealthy, others had good positions under the English Government, and there were also many descendants of the old Loyalists, who had come to the Island from the United States years before. a GOVERNMENT HOUSE, at that time, was not as it is g new. The main building was the same, but there was no ver~ % andah, and the portico was supported by four round pillars, . standing on signs supports and reaching above the second y storey. There was sufficient room for a horse and carriage it to drive or stand underneath, as the carriage drive passed 4 along close by the front door and underneath the portico. n Any stranger coming in the harbour could see at once that it i was a building of some importance. General Edmund Fanning, 'g the second Governor of the Island, knowing the necessity f there was for a proper residence for the Lieutenant Governor' granted one hundred acres of land to the Governor General fo all time, on which a suitable residence should be erected. The present Government House was built on this land in 1835, and first occupied by Sir Aretas W. Young in the same year. (It is said that Governor Ready, the then Governor, planned g, it after one he had lived in at Barbados.) When the house 5* was completed, the furniture, and everything necessary to a make it comfortable for the residence of His Excellency,‘was§, sent from England at the expense of the British Government;