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eaft the ifle of Anthony Vaez. Upon that branch of the river called AfFogados, are 

 abundance of fugar-mills, from whence the Portuguefe ufed to convey their fugar-chefts, 

 either in boats by the W3.y of the river, or in carts to Baretta, and from thence in flat* 

 bottomed boats to the Receif and to Olinda. 



A league to the fouth of Maurice's Town, upon the branch called AfFogados, is a 

 four-fquare fort of the fame name, otherwife called Fort William ; and from whence 

 you may pafs along a dike to the fort Frederick-Henry, or Maurice's Town. It was 

 a noble ftrudure, furrounded with high and ftrong walls, a large ditch and pallifadoes, 

 with fix brafs cannon ; it defended the avenues to the plains. 



About half a league from thence, and at the fame diftance from the continent, lies 

 another fort on the fea-fhore, called Baretta ; this commands the avenues both by fea 

 and land to the cape of St. Auftin and the Receif. 



Upon that part of the ifland which lies betwixt the rivers Kapivaribi and Biberibi, 

 and betwixt the forts of Erneflus and the triangular fort of Waerdenburg, were the 

 before-mentioned gardens of Count Maurice, ftored with all kinds of trees, fruits, 

 flowers and greens, which either Europe, Africk, or both the Indies could afford. 

 There were near feven hundred cocoa-trees of all fizes, fome of which were thirty, 

 forty, and fifty feet high ; which being tranfplanted thither, out of the circumjacent 

 countries, bore abundance of fruit the very firft year ; above fifty lemon-trees, and 

 eighteen citron-trees, eighty pomegranate-trees, and fixty-fix fig-trees, were alfo to be 

 feen in thefe gardens. 



In the midfl of it fl:ood the feat itfelf, called Vryburg, a noble fl:ru<5ture indeed, 

 which, as is reported, coft fix hundred thoufand florins ; it had a mofl: admirable prof- 

 pe£l:, both to the fea and land fide, and its two towers were of fuch a height, that they 

 might be feen fix or feven leagues off at fea, and ferved the feamen for a beacon. In 

 the front of the houfe was a battery of marble, rifing by degrees from the river fide, 

 upon which were mounted ten pieces of cannon for the defence of the river. About 

 two or three rods from the river, were feveral large bafons in the garden, containing 

 very fweet water, notwithftanding the river all round about afforded nothing but falt- 

 water ; befides this, there were divers fifti-ponds, fl:ocked with all forts of fifli. 



At the very foot of the bridge which is built over the river Kapivaribi, from Mau- 

 rice's Town to the continent. Count Maurice had built a very pleafant fummer feat, 

 called by the Portuguefe, Baavifta, i. e. a fair profpedl. It was not only furrounded 

 with very pleafant gardens and fifli-ponds, but ferved likewife as a fort for the defence 

 of the ifle of Anthony Vaez and Maurice's Town. 



Upon the Sandy Receif, oppofite to the fea, or Water Fort, was a fl:rong fort built 

 of ftione, called by the Portuguefe, St, Toris, our people ufed to call it the Land Fort, 

 to diftinguifli it from the before-mentioned Water Fort ; it defends the entrance of the 

 harbour with thirteen iron pieces of cannon. 



About a muflcet-fliot thence to the north, lies upon the fame Sandy Receif, a fmall 

 fort with four bafl:ions, called the fort of Bruin ; and about a mufl^et-fliot farther to 

 the north, a redoubt, called Madame de Bruin ; both thefe forts were built by the 

 Dutch. 



Near the continent, nor far from the falt-pits, betwixt the Sandy Receif and the ifle 

 of Anthony Vaez, was a triangular fort called Waerdenburg. It' was at firfl: a four- 

 fquare, but afterwards turned by the Dutch into a triangular fort, the fourth bulwark 

 being not defenfible, by reafon of the ground. Thefe three bulwarks were afterwards 

 changed into as many redoubts, and provided with fome brafs guns ; at high tide it is 

 furrounded on all fides with water. 



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