14 OS BECK'S VOYAGE. 



The walls, and mod of the houfes in this 

 town, are made of a fort of ftone which they 

 call Selleria, and which is 



Tophus particulis tejlaceb, argilla 6' arena 

 coadunatus, or a mixture of ihells, clay, and 

 fand. It is faid that the before mentioned 

 rocks Porcos confift of this (lone. It is broken 

 on the fea-ftiore and carried from the mioPya 

 (when the tide is low) in high carts to the 

 town ; and thofe pieces which are too heavy 

 to be put into the cart are faftened with ropes 

 below it. The ftone is foft in cutting, and 

 therefore very proper to build with, as it 

 hardens by time. The inner terras of the 

 wall, to which a ftaircafe leads on the right 

 hand fide of the gates, is covered with Dutch 

 clinkers c , and as broad and even as the finelt 

 road. From thence you furvey with pleafure 

 (over the outward part of the wall, which is 

 about four feet higher and very narrow) the 

 (hips riding at anchor, going out and coming 

 in : among the firft, is the filver-fleet. To- 

 wards the city you behold a flreet where falads, 



• Clinkers are a fpecies of Dutch bricks. 



roots, 



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