224 FINE PUBLIC BUILDINGS. [1697. 



Pearl, and Saphire} Between the Town and the Fort, 

 Southerly of the latter, there is a considerable large Field 

 where Sheep feed, which is travers'd by a fine row of Trees 

 that lead to the Fort-Gate, within which is a Corps de Guard?' 

 You may there see, between four Pallisadoes, a great num- 

 ber of Cannon for the Ships. Almost in the middle of the 

 City there is a large square Place, where the Garrison is 

 commonly drawn up, being about 1,000 Men. Myn Heer 

 Grevenbrook, a very good Man, and an Officer of this Garri- 

 son, was so kind and generous to me on all Occasions, that 

 I am glad of having here an opportunity to make my 

 Acknowledgments to him. On one side Westward of this 

 Place stands the great Church, Southerly the Guild -Hall or 

 Town-House, Northerly there is a long range of fine Houses, 

 and Easterly there runs one of the great Canals. Over and 

 above this great Church, where Divine Worship is exercis'd 

 in Dutch, there is another in the Citadel. 



The reform'd Portugueses have two Churches, one in the 

 City and another in the Suburbs ; and these Congregations 

 are very Numerous, because they consist of divers Foreigners 

 that speak the Portuguese Language. The both Proselite 

 and Eeform'd Malays have also a Church in the City, where 

 the Service is in their Language : This is a Translation of 



1 " Besides the forts," writes Smollett, " there is the famous citadel of 

 Batavia, which is a very fine regular fortification situated at the mouth 

 of the river, facing the city, and planted with four bastions, two of 

 which command the sea, 'and the other two the town." {Op. cit., x, cap. i.) 



Valentyn, in his Life of Cornells Speelman, Governor-General of the 

 Indian Nederlands, gives the number of guns in these bastions, with 

 their names, Diamante Robyii, Sapphier, and Paarl. The same author 

 also gives engravings of the buildings within and without the citadel. 



" This citadel", writes Smollett, " hath two great gates, the one called 

 the Company's gate, built in 1 636, with a bridge of square stone, of four- 

 teen arches, each twenty-six yards long." {Universal Hist., vol. x, cap. i.) 



2 " On the left side of the gate is a large building, which serves as 

 a corps-de-garde, having in front a long gallery, resting upon a row of 

 pillars. A captain's guard of grenadiers are generally posted here." 

 {Stavorimis, vol. i, p. 257.) 



