one hundred and seventy-two. In the centre 

 stands the market hall, a circular building, one 

 hundred and twelve feet diameter, over which 

 there is a dome, whose dimensions are every 

 way so much at variance with proportion as to 

 warrant a supposition that deformity had been 

 studied instead of symmetry; it is, however, 

 no longer to remain a public mark of bad taste, 

 for the legislature has decreed its removal, to 

 make way for something more appropriate. 

 Underneath the hall is a large reservoir of 

 water, contrived to afford a speedy supply in 

 cases of fire. The accommodations of the 

 place have been considerably increased by the 

 removal of the Jesuits church, and appropri- 

 ation of the ground it occupied to the wood- 

 market. On the side of Fabrique Street is the 

 space allotted to the hay-market. Main streets 

 diverge from the different sides of the market 

 to the principal entrances into the city. The 

 market is held every day, and almost always 

 well stocked ; but Saturday usually affords the 

 greatest abundance, when there is a good shew 

 of butcher s meat of all kinds, furnished both 

 by the butchers of the city, and the habitafis, 

 who bring it from several miles round. The 

 supplies of poultry, fish, fruit, vegetables, 

 herbs, and indeed every article of consumption, 

 are brought by the country people in large 



