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THE ISLAND OF 



land which runs along the N. E. fide of the entrance into the bay, and 

 commands all the fortifications that defend the entrance. 



Under the faces of the fouth-wefl angle of the caftle, and more within the 

 entrance into the harbour, is a battery of ftone called the twelve apoftles; a 

 little higher, and oppofite the point-gate is the la Dhina Pajlora or Shepherds 

 battery of ftone for 14 guns (then not quite finifhed) level with the water, but 

 fo lituated under the hill, (which is here very rocky) that it will be almoffc im- 

 poffible for men to ftand to their giins, on account of fplinters from the rock 

 above. 



From the governor's houfe to the Funta gate, fronting the mouth of the 

 harbour, there are four batteries opening, one behind the other i they are all 

 overlooked from the Cavanas on the oppofite fliore, and may be tlanked 

 from thence by mufketry. 



Over the Funta gate, and towards the entrance into the harbour, there is 

 a large ftone battery : this is alfo overlooked from the oppofite hill, and 

 likpwife from the rifing-ground on the north-iide of the village of Gua- 

 daloiipe. . 



The Funtal is a fquarc caftle, with four baflions, regular, but very fmall, 

 about 200 yards difiant from the gate, from which it is feparated by a ditch 

 with a draw-bridge. The ground here is low, wet, and marfhy j behind 

 the marfli, and joining to the foiith-weft fide of the glacis of the puntal, 

 &here is a breaft-work of earth paliifadoed, to cover the communication of 

 the caflle, with the puntal gate, and the road that leads to the Lazaretto. 



From the Funta gate to the dock-yard there is a rampart with bail:rons, 

 faced with ftone, and earthera parapets with a ditch, which in feveral places 

 is fallen in, and almoft filled up, particularly behind the Punta and land-gates 

 near the ftone-quarries, which if joined to one another, might be of great 

 detriment to the place in cafe of a ficge, as lodgments might be made in 

 them j the ground here rifes with an eafy afcent to the land-gate, and is 

 either open paflure or garden-ground, well ftored with the cabbage tree. Be- 

 fore the land gate is a ravelin, the hill on a rifing ground from this gate 

 (which is the higheft part of the town) to the dock-yard^ is fleeper than on 

 the other fide. . 



Almoft half a mile from the gate, is the church of Guadakupej being the 

 highcfi: ground on the land fide of the town, and if not fortified (which it 



was 



