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of which are not yet finifhed, what is already com- 

 pleated is well executed, and has all the convenien- 

 cies neceflary in this country. This houfe is now 

 rebuilding for the third time, it was burnt down to 

 the ground in 1703, and in the month of October, 

 in the year 1705, when it was near compleatly 

 rebuilt, it was again almoft entirely confumed by 

 the flames. From the garden you difcover the 

 whole of the road and the river St. Charles, as far 

 as the eye can reach. 



The fort or citadel is a fine building, with two 

 pavilions by way of wings ; you enter it through 

 a fpacious and regular court, but it has no garden 

 belonging to it, the fort being built on the brink of 

 the rock. This defect is fupplied in fome meafure 

 with a beautiful gallery, with a balcony, which 

 reaches the whole length of the building ; it com- 

 mands the road, to the middle of which one may 

 be eafily heard by means of a fpeaking trumpet ; 

 and hence too you fee the whole lower town under 

 your feet. On leaving the fort, and turning to the 

 left, you enter a pretty large efplanade, and by a 

 gentle declivity you reach the fummit of Cape Dia- 

 mond, which makes a very fine platform. Befides 

 the beauty of the profpect, you breathe in this place 

 the pureft air ; you fee from it a number of por- 

 poifes as white as fnow playing on the furface of 

 the water, and you fometimes find a fort of dia- 

 monds on it finer than thofe of Alencon. I have 

 feen fome of them full as well cut as if they had 

 come from the hand of the moft expert workman. 

 They were formerly found here in great plenty, 

 and hence this cape has the name it bears. At pre- 

 fent they are very fcarce. The defcent towards the 

 country is ftill more gentle than that towards the 

 efplanade. 



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