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by admitting him a correfponding member. Having 

 thus honourably terminated all his bufinefs at Paris, 

 he fet out for Madrid, in order to lay before the 

 miniftry the event and fuccefs of his commiiTion; 

 and at the fame time follcited that a report of it 

 might be made to his m.ijefty. 



CHAP. VII. 



account of the harbour and town of Louisbourgj end 

 the taking of it by the English; together with 

 feme particulars relating to the French fijhery^ and 

 the trade carried on there. 



T OUISBOURG is in the latitude of 45° 50' N, 

 . lat. and 61° W. of the meridian of Paris It 

 ftands in the S. E. part of I'lfle Royale, and E. of 

 Cape Breton. The town is of a middling fize, the 

 houfcs of wood on a foundation of ftone to the 

 height of tv/o yards or two yards and a half from 

 the ground. In fome houfes the whole ground floor 

 is of ftone, and the ftories of wood. It is walled, 

 and extremely well fortified with all the modern 

 works: it is only in one pbce about 100 toifes in 

 length, where the wall is difcontinu'^d, as indeed 

 unneccfiary, this being filled up by die fea, and 

 fufficiendy defended by a pallifade. Here the wa- 

 ter forms a kind of a large lake ; but where the 

 fmalleil barks cannot come, and the large ihips 

 muft keep at a confiderable diilance, by reafon of 

 rocks and fnoals ; bf^fides there are two collateral 

 bailions, which flank this pafTage to a very great 

 advantage. Witnm the fort, and in the center of 

 one of its chief bailions, is a ftrong bgilding with a 

 moat on the fide towards the town ; and this is called 

 the ciitadel, though it has neither artillery, nor is of 

 B b 3 a ftruc- 



