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Trke fortifications of Portfmoutli have 

 been, lately, extended to the part called Portfea, 

 by which they have afTunied a more formidable 

 afpeft ; and although they are, even yet, more 

 calculated to guard againft a furprife, than to 

 withftand the regular attack of a befieglng 

 army ; ftill, froni its fofles, its baftions, and 

 Its angles, this place wears more the appear- 

 ance of a, regularly, fortified town, than any 

 other of our ifland. But, happily, for Eng- 

 land, fhe has been fortified by a greater mafter 

 than Vauban, Colbert, or any other engineer 

 of modern or ancient celebrity. The trident of 

 old Neptune has dug a deep foffe around her, 

 which Britons, of the prefent day, know how 

 to guard, as their bed defence, againft all the 

 fanguinary hordes of our fpecies* 



