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The frigate arrived at the harbour of Guarico in the 

 moft favourable time, five men of war being then at 

 Leogan, another harbour in that ifland belonging to the 

 French; and expected there in order to convoy a fleet 

 of merchantmen to Europe. 



Guarico lies on the N. W. fide of the iiland of 

 Saint Domingo in i9deg. 45 min. 48 fee. N. latitude, 

 and 73 dcg. o min. 45 fee. weft of the meridian of 

 Paris, according to the obfervation of Don George 

 Juan taken on the fpot: the town is about one third of 

 a league in length, and contains between thirteen and 

 fifteen hundred inhabitants, who are a mixture of 

 Europeans, wiiite crecv!s, negroes, mulattoes and 

 cafts; but the laft the moft numerous. It is but a few- 

 years fince th-u all the houfes in the town were of 

 wood; but the greaceft part of them having been 

 confumed by tha unexcinguiiliable rapidity of a fire, 



the 



