There are extensive magazines for gunpowder and rockets, also saw mills and workshops for the manufacture of gun-carriages, rocket-staffs, lance-poles, and similar articles. The Storehouses of the Royal Artil lery are to the north of the Royal Arsenal. The Royal Artillery Bar racks are on the north side of Woolwich Common. Tho principal front, which consists of 6 ranges, is 1200 feet long, with an elegant entrance-tower in the centre. A spacious chapel in the east wing has accommodation for 1000 persons. The other parts of the building consist of the library and reading-room; and a splendid suite of apart ments, in which balls and other entertainments are given. The interior is divided into two quadrangles, with stabling and barracks for the horse-artillery and a large riding-school.
The Royal Military Academy is at the south-east edge of Woolwich Common, towards which it presents a handsome front : the central tower, with its four domed turrets, is a picturesque object iu the diatanoe. The academy was established as early as 1719, but the present building was not erected till 1805. The Master-General of the Ordnance for the time being is the governor. The resident officers are —a lieutenant-governor and inspector, second captains and lieutenants, a professor of mathematics, a professor and instructors of fortification, instructors in practical artillery, masters of geography, surveyiug, drawing, language; &c., with lecturers on mechanics, astrouomy, geology, and chemistry.
The Repository, south of the town, on the west aide of Woolwich Common, is a depository for models of fortified towns, dockyards, &c.; other models of military and naval architecture, with specimens of fire-arms, military machines, and • variety of other things connected with military and naval affairs. The building, called the Rotunda, is of tent-like form, with 24 aides, the diameter being 120 feet. The centre of the cone which forms tho top of the buildiug is supported by a pillar, round which are arranged specimens of old English weapons, such as matchlocks, wheel-locks, bills, partizans, old swords, &c.
Besides the buildings above described, there are the Royal Marino Barracks ; the barracks of the Royal Sappers and Miners, in which a library and museum have been instituted by the non-commissioned °Moen and privates of the corps ; and the Royal Ordnance Hospital. In the Thames, opposite the dockyards, are the hulks for the reception of convicts sentenced to transportation and to hard labour: the convicts are employed on government works.
At North Woolwich, on the opposite aide of the river, a village of neat residences, with an hotel and pleasure-grounds, has epruug up slums the construction of the Woolwich branch of the Eastern Couuties railway, which has its terminus here. Communication by steam-boat is constantly maintained between Woolwich and North Woolwich. Extensive commercial docks aro in course of construction at North Woolwich.