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Aibfifted at the cxpcnce of the goveninicnt ; during which time great 

 animbers of them died, particuhirly the men, owing chiefly to t})C 

 badnefs of their habit.^tions, which they provided for themleivcs, and 

 wliich were little better than huts, covered with thatch, by no means 

 fufficient to defend them trom the iri.iemency of the weather ; fo that 

 at prefent very few of the men are alive ; the women fared better. 

 Moft of the female inhabitants at the Mole are Ac.^dians, and feveral 

 others of them married, and removed to other fettlements of the 

 colony. 



About five years ago, the French, following our example, declared 

 thh ^ J~ree fiort ; in confequence of which, the towns-people have 

 derived a iubfiftence, that the land adjacent could not afford. The 

 houfes, which at firft were very mean, have been all, within thefe laft 

 three years, rebuilt, with materials from North America, framed and 

 fliingled. The town now confifts of four hundred good houfes, 

 and contains the following public edifices ; a houfe for the command- 

 ant; a very excellent one, of free-ftone, for the fecond in command ; 

 houfes for the commiflary, intendant, treafurer, coUedlor, and other 

 dependent officers ; a large repolitory for the king's fiores ; a maft- 

 houfe, of ample dimenfions, and well filled with mafts and fpars ; an 

 hofpital, and a church. 



On the South fide of the town a fmall river difcharges itfelf into 

 the harbour; this is taken up at fome diftance, and conducted to 

 the higheft quarter of the town, from whence it is diftributed in 

 fmall rills to every flreet, in order to furnifii the inhabitants with 

 good water for their domen:ic ufes, and for refreshing their gar- 

 dens, in which figs, grapes, plantane-trees, and a variety of pot- 

 herbs, thrive remarkably well : this is intirely owing to artificial 

 irrigation ; for without it, the foil, confifliing only of the fea-fand 

 with a very fmall intermixture of mould, would be incapable of 

 producing thefe plants. 



Remarks on the Harbour and Fortifications. 



The harbour lies Eaft and Wefl:, in depth about two miles and 

 an half. 



The Northern fliore feems to be iron bound for fix to twelve 

 feet from the water's edge, then extending in a level for about one 



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