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redoubts, one on each fide of the river, called Leyden c F! A P. 

 and Purmerent, and a little higher up is the- new fortrefs , 

 called Amfterdam, built on the point of land which fe- 

 parates the two rivers, Surinam and ComevVina, from 

 each other ; and whofe fire, eroding with that of the two 

 redoubts, protects the entry of both thefe rivers. 



Near the town of Paramaribo, and about fix or feven 

 miles from the fortrefs Amfterdam, is the citadel which 

 bears the name of Fort Zelandia, protecting the town and 

 all the fhipping in the roads ; and about fixteen miles 

 from Fort Amfterdam, on Rio Comewina, is a fortrefs 

 called Somelfdyk, which commands the two oppofite 

 Ihores, viz. thofe of Rio Comewina and Rio Cottica. Be- 

 fides thefe, there are military pofts on the Corantine, the 

 Seramica, and Marawina. Next to thefe is a ftrong guard 

 at the mouth of the Mott Creek, about thirty miles below 

 the river Surinam, where a fire-beacon or light-houfe is 

 erected on the coaft, to warn the fhips bound for the 

 river that they are paft the mouth of the dangerous Ma- 

 rawina. This guard alfo fires a few guns, to apprize the 

 colony when fiiips are within view and fiieering for the 

 coaft. Along the higher parts of the rivers Surinam, 

 Comewina, and Cottica, advanced guards are alfo con- 

 tinually kept, to prote6t the inhabitants from inland in- 

 vafions by the Indians or fugitive negroes. In thefe for- 

 tifications confifts the principal defence of this fettle- 

 ment ; befides a fmall armed bark or guarda-cofta, which 

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