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fends the port Is conftru6led with materials taken from thefe ve- 

 nerable fabrics, and ftands in the place of an eccleriaftlcal fanc- 

 tuary. The pofiefiion of this city fell to the {hare of captain He- 

 ming, an officer in the Oliverian army fent hither ; and his pof- 

 terity flill enjoy it. 



The caftle and church, being almoft half a mile afunder, may 

 give us fome idea of the intended extent and grandeur of this place; 

 but, the old walls before-mentioned being every day diminilhed, 

 for the fake of the materials which are ufed in repairing the build- 

 higs on the eftate, it is probable that in a few years more there will 

 be fcarcely any veftige left of this celebrated city. But the ground 

 about the church being fuppofed confecrated, is ftill preferved as a 

 burial place. As for the ruins of the caftle, they are not only 

 leveled to, but confiderably funk below, the prefent furface of the 

 earth. In the year 1764 were dug up two pilafters of about feven 

 feet length, of no particular order, but fomewhat refembling the 

 Ionic. They appeared to have belonged to the portal, or veftibule, 

 of fome large building, as there were alfo feveral concave ftones 

 proper for an arched roof. Upon thefe pilafters were fome rude 

 carvings m alto relievo. Four or five coarfe images were likewife 

 found ; one of which refembled a fphynx ; another, an alligator ; 

 and the reft were creatures of the mafon's fimcy. The manfion- 

 houfe on this eftate ftands on the fummit of a rifing lawn, nearly 

 equidiftant from the fea and the mountains ; a fituation which 

 makes it both healthy and agreeable. Before the front of it is a 

 battery of eighteen fmall guns e7i barbette; which is intended as 

 a proteftion to the eftate, and to the harbour itfelf in war-time 

 againft privateers. The garden on the Eaft fide of the houfe is 

 prettily laid out ; and decorated with a ftone-teraple, elegantly de- 

 fig-ned in the modern tafte. 



The Spanifti habitations have long ago been demolifhed, and 

 the ground whereon they ftood converted into cane-fields; but, in 

 turning up the foil for planting, the old rubbifli continually makes 

 its appearance, and contributes to render it lefs fertile. The ruina 

 were more perfedl in Su- Hans Sloan's time, who vifited them in 

 1688, and has left us the following account : 



"The 



