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The paflfage grows afterwards a little larger, 

 till you come to the town, which is about the dif- 

 tance of two or three hundred paces. The chan- 

 nel turns from thence to the left beyond the town, 

 which lies upon the right, and this, is ail I can fay 

 of it, having been no larther. The town takes 

 up the point of a peninfula ; and the land fide, 

 which is its whole length, is defended by a good 

 wall with baftions. It has a very agreeable pro- 

 fpe&, after you have paifed the fort du More. 

 The ftreets are well laid out, the quay large and 

 in good condition, and the houfes, for the moil 

 part, well buiit ; the churches are pretty numerous, 

 and fome of them make a good appearance, 

 but 1 did not vifit any of them. In a word, 

 a town in which there is twenty thoufand inhabi- 

 tants does not make a finer mow, but the Ha- 

 vannah, as I have been told, has not near that 

 number. 



On my landing, I met with feveral failors who 

 had belonged to the Adour, and of thofe who had 

 gone both in the fhallop and in the canoe. The 

 firft informed me, that they had been five days in 

 making this port, from the place where they were 

 caft away, having been almoft the whole time in 

 the moft immediate danger of periming. I had 

 not time to learn, by what means the fcond had 

 got there. But the furgeon who went on board 

 our canoe at fort du More as our guide, took 

 great pains to fhew me MarlhaPs brigantine, men- 

 tioned in the beginning of this letter. He had 

 caft anchor along- fide of a floop fo very fmall that 

 it could not contain above fifteen or twenty men, 

 who, however, carried her by boarding. It muft 

 be confeffcd, that the crews of the armed vefTels 

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