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US in the morning, made nie quit this place with 

 regret. The country round was aftonifliingly 

 fertile, and abounded in all forts of game ; the 

 houfe itfelf flood about half a mile from a noble 

 and extenljve lake, bordered by a margin of 

 luxuriant grafs ; beyond this arofe a grove of 

 {lately trees, which never lofe their verdure, 

 while the range of mountains, which runs along 

 the coafl, bounded the profpedf, and harmo- 

 nized in a mod pidurefque manner, with the 

 pure azure of the Iky. Having quitted this 

 beautiful fcenery, we proceeded on our march, 

 and haying refrefhed ourfelves at a farm, went 

 on to Torres, a fort fituated on an eminence by 

 the fea on the frontiers of the province of Ria 

 Grande, 



About a league before we came to TorreSy the 

 road led us down to the fea coafl, where we 

 travelled along the fands, clofe to the water, for 

 .a conliderable diftance. Here we had a full 

 ■view of the mountain on which the fort is built, 

 and of another abreaft pf it, each of which pre- 

 fents a perpendicular front of rocks, of amazing 

 height, to the fea ; thefe with fome fmall craggy 

 iflands very near the fhore exhibit a majeftic 

 yie>y, and form a (Iriking contrail to the fcenes 

 of fertility we had juft left. The fort, though 

 it might be rendered impregnable, in its prefent 

 ilate, hardly merits the name. Some batteries 



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