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THE CO A ST OP 



PENSACOLA, 



IN Florida, is a large harbour, fafe from all Winds, and has^ four fatliom 

 water at its entrance, deepening gradually to feven or eiglit. On the 

 weft fide of the harbour ftands a poor town, of about forty palmetto houfes, 

 defended by a fmall ftockaded fort of about twelve or fourteen guns, call- 

 ed Santa Maria de Galre, from its being erefted in the time cf the count de 

 Galre, but of very little u^e, the inhabitants confifting whblly of malefaftors 

 tranfported hither from Mexico. A very fine river falls into the bay of Mexi- 

 co on the fide of this harbour, after runninp; above loo miles throuph the 

 country. The land here produces plenty of trees fit for mafts of (liips, and 

 accordingly many of them are cut down and carried to Fera Cruz for that 

 purpofe. 



Samt AUGUSTINE, 



SITUATED on the eaftern coaft of the peninfula of Florida, about 70 

 leagues from the gulph of Florida, or channel of Bahama, and 47 from 

 the town and river of Savana. It is built along the (hore, at the bottom 

 of a hill ; near it is the church and monaftery of the order of Sant Augujiine. 

 The caftle is called aS^. Johns, built of foft ftone, has four baftions, a 

 curtain 60 yards long, a parapet nine feet thick, and a rampart twenty feet 

 high, cafemated, arched, and bomb-proof. There was fome years ago fifty 

 pieces of cannon, fixteen of which were brafs, and fome of them twenty- 

 four pounders. 



Sir Francis Drake attacked this fort in 1586, when the Spaniards fled and 

 left him fourteen brafs guns, which were mounted on a platform of trees 

 and earth, befides a cheft of 2000 pounds and other booty. Then the town 

 only confided of timber houfcs ; the fort was alfo a wooden one, and the 

 walls confifted of nothing but trunks of-trees fet clofe together. In 1665 it was. 



