Candid and impartial considerations on the nature of the sugar trade; the comparative importance of the British and French islands in the West-Indies: with the value and consequence of StLucia and Granada, truly stated . med one of the beft harbours in the Weft-Indies, as pofie fling aim oft every advantagethat can be defired. It is a full quarter of amile broad at its entrance, and when once en-tered> it is fo capacious, as to hold with eafe aiquadron of twenty-five (hips of the line, wherethey may ride in perfedl fafety, in refpe(n: eitherto wind or weather. Befides, there lies, at avery
Candid and impartial considerations on the nature of the sugar trade; the comparative importance of the British and French islands in the West-Indies: with the value and consequence of StLucia and Granada, truly stated . med one of the beft harbours in the Weft-Indies, as pofie fling aim oft every advantagethat can be defired. It is a full quarter of amile broad at its entrance, and when once en-tered> it is fo capacious, as to hold with eafe aiquadron of twenty-five (hips of the line, wherethey may ride in perfedl fafety, in refpe(n: eitherto wind or weather. Befides, there lies, at avery fmall diftance from this port, a lake of aconfiderable fize, very deep, the water brackifh,and which by cutting through a fand-bankmight be very eafily joined to the port, andwould be then one of the fineft bafons in theworld, and afford all the conveniences, thatrould poITibly be wifhed, for careening the lar-gcft fquadrons of the largeft ftiips that we ever employ PZAX of FOUT HOYAL in o^ GBANAVA^\i\^ *<? Harbour&-E A . Fort Royal. B . Kattcry upon Goat Point . C The Town . D. The Church K Hofpital Hill Ic Enlrenchment F. Redoubts. G. MorneL,H. Morne MohereI. , Entrenchments. [ i75> ] Employ in this part of the world. The mouthof this port is fecurcd by a tolerable fortrefs^called Fort Royal^ where the governor refides,but the fituation of it has been cenfured j andindeed there is no doubt, that by the help oftwo good fortifications, ereded on the promon-tories which make the entrance of the harbour^it miffht be rendered inaccefTible, fince in cafeof an attack (hips mud warp in, under the fireof both fortrefTes, which would hardly be at*tempted. The benefits that may be juftly ex-pedted from fuch a port as this, in an ifiand fohappily fituated as this is, and producing fuch ^variety of valuable commodities, are fo obvious,that there is no need of entering into a detail ofthem. In time of war it would give us inex-preffible advantages, againft
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