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the appearance of being cleaned but once 

 every year. 



THE Powder magazine ftands on the 

 fummit of the mountain, on which the 

 city is built, and fouthward of the palace,. 



THE ftreets in the upper city have a 

 fufficient breadth, but are very rugged, on 

 account of the rock on which it lies ; and 

 this renders them very difagreeable and 

 troublefome, both to foot-paflengers and 

 carriages. The black lime-flates baiTet out 

 and projeft every where into (harp angles, 

 which cut the (hoes in pieces. The ftreets 

 crofs each other at all angles, and are very 

 crooked.. 



THE many great orchards and kitchen- 

 gardens, near the houfe of the Jefuits, and 

 other public and private buildings, make 

 the town appear very large, though the 

 number of houfes it contains is not very 

 confiderable. Its extent from fouth to 

 north is faid to be about fix hundred toiles, 

 and from the fhore of the river along 

 the lower town, to the weflern wall be- 

 tween three hundred and fifty, and four 

 hundred toifes. It muft be here obferved, 

 that this fpace is not yet wholly inhabited ; 

 for on the weft and fouth fide, along the 

 town walls, are large pieces of land with- 

 out any buildings on them, and deftined to 

 6 be 



