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CHAPTER VII. 



The Jesuits' church and college of San Jose — The gardens — 

 Sail from Macao for Singapore — Pass Pedro Blanco — Island 

 of Singapore — The town— Treaty for the cession of the 

 island to the British — Hills — Salubrity of the settlement — 

 European burial-ground — Vicinity of the settlement — 

 Government hill — Grand prospect — Commercial prosperity 

 — New roads. 



I VISITED also the Jesuits' church and college of 

 San Jose. On entering the gate a high flight 

 of granite steps leads up to the church ; and, 

 turning off to the right, on gaining the ascent, 

 takes the visitor to the door, which leads him 

 into those portions of the building devoted to 

 the college residences of the professors, &c. ; in 

 a long room were some small but well-executed 

 paintings of Portuguese famed in days of yore. 

 Among others the poet Camoens, and Alvares, 

 the discoverer of the Brazils, could be recog- 

 nized. The college was founded for a certain 



