222 STREETS AND CAXALS. [1697. 



after the manner of Holland, but with white Stone. Its 

 form is an oblong Square, and in an Angle towards the 

 North-West is the Sea, and the Fort or Citadel. Its Length 

 is about two Thousand common Paces, and its Breadth about 

 fifteen Hundred. The Houses in general were formerly low 

 built, but now they have got a Custom of building them 

 higher, no more Hurricanes being to be fear'd, so that the 

 City is become much finer than it was at first. The Streets 

 are straight and large, and have for the most part Canals 

 running through them, with tall Trees on their Banks, like 

 those of Holland, but with this Difference, that the Trees 

 here are always green. 



The Canals are fill'd with clear Water from a certain 

 River, which having run thro' the City,^ discharges it self 

 into the Sea. The City is surrounded with strong Walls, 

 and flank'd with many good Bastions well furnish'd with 

 Cannon. 



The Citadel is a Fort with four Eoyal Bastions, fac'd with 

 large square Stones, and built level with the Ground without 

 any Ditch,^ and consequently without Water, whatever the 



military stores, magazines for spices and other valuable articles." 

 (P. 253.) 



" The city, however, is now much deserted, and all the wealthy inhabit- 

 ants live in the environs, principally on two roads leading to Welter- 

 vreeden ; the one east called the Jacatra road, the other west through 

 Molenvliet and Ryswick. These two elegant roads are planted with 

 shady trees, and exhibit all along a number of very handsome houses, 

 with beautiful gardens and plantations round them, thus forming a very 

 agreeable excursion of about six miles." (P. 252.) 



^ In orig. : " en se communiquant 9S, & 1^," omitted by translator. 



2 There is an observable discrepancy in the different accounts as to 

 the presence of a ditch to the citadel. The East India Officer [1747- 

 48] says the fort has " four royal bastions faced with stone, but no other 

 moat than the canals, which lie at some distance from the ramparts, are 

 about twenty feet broad, and f ordable in most places." (An almost exact 

 copy of Leguat's words !) Stavorinus, on the other hand, later, distinctly 

 states of the castle or citadel, that the walls and ramparts are built of 

 coral-x'ock, and are about twenty feet in height. " It is surrounded by a 



