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long Stable running North and South from the 

 Town to which it joins. This is the King's Stable The K's 

 for the Mules that are imployed in the Road betwixt Stable - 

 this and 'Panama. The Governour's Houfe is clofe The Go- 

 by the great Fort 5 on the fame Rifing, at the Weft vernour's 

 of the Town. Between the Parade in the Middle H 

 of the Town, and the Governour's Houfe, is a 

 little Creek or Brook, with a Bridge! over it ; and 

 at the Eaft-end, by the Stable, is a fmall Rivulet of Rivulet, 

 frefh Water. I have already faid that it is an un- Bad Air* 

 healthy Place. The Eaft-fide is low and fwampy - 9 

 and the Sea at low Water leaves the Shore within 

 the Harbour bare, a great way from the Houfes 

 which having a black filthy Mud, it ftiriks very 

 much, and breeds noifom Vapours* through the 

 Heat of the Climate. From the §outh and the: 

 Eaft-fides the Country rifes gently in Hills, which 

 are partly Woodland and partly Savannah ; but 

 there is no great Store either of Fruit-trees or Plan- 

 tations near the Town. This Account I have had 

 from feveral Privateers juft as they return'd from 

 Portobel ; but I have not been there my felf 



The Country beyond this Weft-ward, to the T ^Coa{t 

 Mouth of the River Chagre, I have feen off at Sea : ^clTr* 

 But not having been afhore there, I can give no o- 

 ther Account of it, but only that it is partly hilly, 

 and near the Sea very much fwampy > and I have 

 heard by feveral that there is no Communication 

 between Portobel and the Mouth of that River. 



I have been yet further Weftward on this Coaft, 

 before I went over the Ifthmus with Capt. Sharps 

 iranging up and down and carreening at Bocca Toro $ 0 tcd Tom 

 and Bocca Drago ; but this is without the Verge of as d ***** 

 thofe Bounds I have fet my felf. Dra *<- 



Having thus furvey'd the North-Coaft of the The s. Sea 

 Ifthmus^ I fhall take a light View of the South al- C ^f£ 

 fo : But I fhall the lefs need to be particular in it, 



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