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CHAP, where divine worfliip is performed both in French and 

 \_J^,_f Low Dutch, has a fmall fpire with a clock; befides 

 ^ which there is a Lutheran chapel, and two elegant 



I Jewifli fynagogues, one German, the other Portu- 



! guefe. Here is alfo a large hofpital for the garrifon, and 



this manfion is never empty. The military flores are 

 kept in the fortrefs, where the Society foldiers are alfo 

 lodged in barracks, with proper apartments for fome offi- 

 cers. The town of Paramaribo has a noble road for fliip- 

 ping, the river before the town being above a mile in 

 breadth, and containing fometimes above one hundred 

 veffeis of burthen, moored within a piftol fhot of the 

 fliore; there are indeed feldom fewer there than fourfcore 

 fliips loading coffee, fugar, cacao, cotton, and indigo, for 

 Holland, including alfo the Guinea-men that bring flaves 

 from Africa, and the North American and Leeward Ifland 

 veflels, which bring flour, beef, pork, fpirits, herrings, 

 and mackarel falted, fpermaceti-candles, horfes, and lum- 

 ber, for which they receive chiefly melafles to be dif- 

 tilled into rum. This town is not fortified, but is bound- 

 ed by the river on the S. E. ; by a large favannah on the 

 W.; by an impenetrable wood on the N. E. ; and is pro- 

 tected by Fort Zelandia on the eafl. This citadel is only 

 feparated from the town by a large efplanade, where the 

 troops parade occafionally. The fort is a regular pen- 

 tagon, with one gate fronting Paramaribo, and two baf- 

 ( tions which command the river; it is very fmall but 

 ftrong, being made of rock or hewn flone, furrounded 



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