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by admitting him a correfponding member. Having 

 thus honourably terminated all his bufmefs at Paris, 

 he fee out for Madrid, in order to lay before the 

 niiniftry the event and fuccefs of his commifllon ; 

 ^nd at the fame time folicited that a report of it 

 might be made to his majefty. 



CHAR VII. 



Account the harbour and town of Lou ISBOUR a t 

 and the taking of it by the English ; together 

 with fome particulars relating to the French 

 Jijheryy and the trade carried on there. 



LOUISBOURG is in the latitude of 45\5o'N. 

 lat. and 61* W. of the meridian of Paris. It 

 ftands in the S. E. part of I'lfle Roy ale, and E. of 

 Cape Breton. The town is of a middling fize, the 

 houfes of wood on a foundation of ftone to the 

 height of two yards or two yards and a half from 

 the ground. In fome houfes the whole ground floor 

 is of ftone, and the ftories of wood. It is walled, 

 and extreamly well fortified with all the modern 

 works : it is only in one place about 100 toil's in 

 Jength, where the wall is difcontinued, as indeed 

 iinneceffary, this being filied up by the fea, and 

 fulBciently defended by a pallifade. Here the wa- 

 ter forms a kind of a large lake; but where the 

 fmalleft barks cannot come, and the large fiiips 

 niuft keep at a confiderable dillance, by reafon of 

 rocks and fhoals •, befides there are two collateral 

 baftions, which flank this pafl^age to a very great 

 advantage. Within the fort, and in the center of 

 one of its chief baftions, is a ftrong building with a 

 moat on the fide towards the town ; and this is called 

 the citadtrl, though it has neither artillery, nor is of 

 B b 9 a ftruc- 



