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Wesley an congregations have two chapels, one in 

 town and the other at the furthest end of the South- 

 district. The garrison library is a spacious building, 

 founded in 1793 by Colonel Drinkwater, the author 

 of the celebrated book on ' The Siege of Gibraltar.' 

 This valuable institution, without which Gibraltar 

 would, indeed, be an undesirable residence, reflects 

 great credit on those who have propounded and en- 

 couraged its establishment. It is entirely supported 

 by subscriptions from the military, naval, and civil 

 officers, at the time stationed in Gibraltar. It con- 

 tains upwards of twenty thousand volumes of all kinds 

 and descriptions, and in different languages. The 

 committee of management have, for some years, with 

 great liberality, allowed the purchase of a limited 

 number of medical works, and the library now pos- 

 sesses a pretty fair stock of standard medical books 

 and periodicals, which the subscribing medical officers 

 of the garrison are too thankful to obtain the reading 

 of, now that the military medical library is defunct, 

 and its books lie mouldering on shelves in an upper 

 room of the garrison dispensary. 



The only Moorish remain of any importance is the 

 castle (bearing date A. D. 746). It stands on the 

 north-west side of the rock, and its decaying walls 

 enclose a large space of ground, on which are built a 

 few quarters for officers, &c. A great part of the 

 giralda, or tower, has resisted the work of time, and 

 forms part of the prison for civil and military offend- 

 ers. The old Moorish walls have lately been restored, 

 destroying, however, much of their picturesque effect. 



