A Voyage to 



Backs, and the Curtins and Faces enfiladed, or fcour'd 

 along their whole Length by neighbouring Eminences 

 within Musket-Shot, fo that it is very eafy to render them 

 ufclefs. At the Foot of the high Fort, adjoining to the 

 Town, is a Battery of nine Pieces of Cannon, rais'd thir- 

 teen Foot high, on a Key of the fame Height, whence they 

 can fire upon the Anchoring-Place level with the Water : 

 But befides that, it has no Defence from its Pofition, it is 

 commanded by all the Parts about. It is calFd Caftillo 

 Blanco, or White-Caftle^ becaufe it has been whitened, that 

 it may be feen at a Diftance. Behind that Battery, are the 

 Gate, the Stairs, and the Afcent 5 which lead from the 

 Town to the Fortrefs along a Way covered with a Piece of 

 Wall and higher up, a Boyau, or Branch of a Trench, 

 the Epaulinent whereof does not cover the Gate of the Body 

 of the Place, which is all open to the Road. 



In the Middle of the Curtin, on the Side next the Moun- 

 tain, is another Gate, to which they climb up out of the 

 Ditch for want of a Drawbridge. That Way paffes the 

 Conduit of Water drawn from the Stream of S. Auguftin 

 for the upper Fort, which might be eafily cut off, and the 

 Garrifon could have no other but that of the Rivulet, which 

 runs from the Bottom of the Stream of S. Francis through 

 the Middle of the Town. Thus we fee how little the 

 Fortrefs of Valparaifo is to be fear'd, if Men were landed, 

 as may be done in fair Weather, at that open Shore, which 

 is at the Bottom of the Road, at the Place calfd Almendral, 

 where the Cannon can fcarce do any Harm. 



In the low Battery there are 9 Brafs Guns, from 1 2 to 

 18 Pound Ball, Spanijh Weight, whereof no two can fire 

 upon that Landing-Place ; and the rather, for that it is al- 

 moft half a League diftant. In the Upper-Fort there are 

 five, from fix to twelve Pound Ball, and two little Drakes, 

 making in all 16 Brafs Guns. I muft here take Notice by 

 the By, that this Artillery was put into a Condition to.be 

 of Ufe by the Carpenters of Boifloret, Captain of the Ship 

 leClerc, in the Year 171 2 : But had not the Governs been 



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