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only private path, and the only public road. 

 At the back of the fort is a deep and wild 

 favanna, giving habitation to enormous fnakes, 

 alligators, loud-roaring frogs, and other reptiles. 

 This naked wafte extends to a great diftance, 

 and is bordered by dark forefts, which reach 

 near to the fort, and preclude every view 

 except of the water and the flat uncultivated 

 favanna. In thefe woods wild Indians range 

 wide and free. Sometimes alfo tigers are feen 

 prowling from their deep (hades ; and our 

 ears are daily and almoft hourly faluted with 

 the loud chattering of monkies, the horrid 

 fcreaming of parrots, and the confufed noife 

 of numerous other inhabitants. 



The fort is calculated for the accommo- 

 dation of between two and three hundred 

 men. The territory attached to it is fcarcely 

 more extenfive than the buildings, and the 

 whole garrifon is confined to a circle of left 

 than half a mile ; the only promenade, without 

 the gates, being from the barrack to the hofpi- 

 tal, and back from the hofpital to the barrack, 

 a diftance of little more than a hundred yards. 

 A fhort path has, indeed, been opened into 

 the favanna, which forms a very limited walk^ 



