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is very wide : but this entrance is encumbered 

 with reefs, in failing betwixt which too much 

 precaution cannot be ufed. On going in, you 

 muft keep on your right along a point on which 

 is a redoubt mounted with cannon ; but it is cuf- 

 tomary before engaging in thefe narrow pafles, 

 where two mips cannot go a-breaft, to get a pilot 

 from the fort ; and in order to prevent the defire 

 of faving a piftole, which is his fee, from occa- 

 fioning people to rifk the lofing their veffds, it 

 is very wifely ordered, that this fum fhall be 

 paid, even fhould they come in without his affif- 

 tance. 



The town ftands in the bottom of the bay, 

 upon the right fide. It is not very confider- 

 able, becaufe almoft all but thofe who are tradef- 

 men, mop-keepers, foldiers, or inn-keepers, re- 

 fide in the plain, as much as their duty will fuf- 

 fer the officers ; the exercife of juftice, the ma- 

 gi fir ate s ; and the affairs of trade thofe who are 

 concerned in it, that is to fay, almoft all thofe who 

 are reckoned here people of credit : fo that, in 

 order to fee genteel company, you muft go to the 

 country. 1 hus nothing can be more charming 

 than the plain, and the vallies betwixt the moun- 

 tains with which it is furrounded. The houfes 

 are not magnificent but decent and conveni- 

 ent, and the roads are in a ftreight line, of 

 a good breadth, bordered with hedges of ci- 

 trons, and fometimes planted with large trees, 

 and cut from fpace to fpace with rivulets of 

 a clear frefh water. All the plantations feem 

 very well cultivated, and are indeed very fine 

 pieafure- houfes : an air of eafe is every where 

 to be feen, which gives a great deal of pieafure. 



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