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tageous fituation, both in regard to the rifing 

 and fetting fun : at the top are fteep hills co- 

 vered with trees. Here and there are fome 

 country-feats, which make the profpect (till 

 more delightful : but below, as in a center, 

 is the city of Funchal. 



If you go on more, you have a battery at 

 the water's edge on the right, and a caftle on 

 the left. "Whoever lands here mull: carefully 

 decline meddling with the tobacco-trade, in 

 the fame manner as in Portugal ; a fmgle roll 

 of tobacco is enough to bring both men and 

 fliip into danger. The bed thing is, that the 

 cuitom-houfe -officers are fatisfied with any 

 excufe almoit, if it is but plaufible. The 

 town has a rampant, within it a caflle, and 

 befides'this a commanding fortrefs on a rifing 

 oround : but all thefe are without a terre- 



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pkin, have only high banquets and very fliort 

 flanks, as is ufual when they are to be perpen- 

 dicular to the curtains. 



The houfes are pretty good, and three (to- 

 nes high, but the loweft are generally uninha- 

 bited. I faw no windows in private houfes, 

 but inftead of them, iron grates. 



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