McCrady
the principal street is seventy-two foot wide, call'd Broad Street, is decorated, besides many fine houses, with a State house near in the centre of said street, constructed to contain two rooms, one for the Governor and Council, th' other for the Representatives of the people, the Secretary's office, and a Court room; opposite the state House is the Armory- house, item St. Michael's Church, whose steeple is 192 foot high, and seen by vessels at sea before they make any land; also with a new Exchange on the east end of said street upon the bay; all four buildings have been rais'd since the year 1752, and no expence spared to make them solide, convenient, and elegant.
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