ip6 A Voyage to 



Mancera, with an Enclofure flank' d by i o Baftions on th* 

 Land-fide, and by fome Redans and plain Baftions on the 

 Edge of the Sea, where there are four Batteries of Can- 

 non to command the Port and Road. This Port was in 

 a bad Condition in the Year 1713 > there were five Breaches 

 in k, and the Sea. daily ruins the Wall, fince there has 

 been a Stone Key built, the Situation whereof flops the 

 S. W. Surf, and occalions a Return of the Water, which 

 faps the Walls of the Town. 

 Fortifications. The Breadth of the Rampart is of two different Extents; 



tfptt^ Curtins are at ^ e To P ^ ut ^04 ^ 00t iM c *> two and 

 XXVII. a hflf of Earth, as much Banquette, and. three of Stone, 

 with Mortar made of Sand and Lime the reft of the 

 Thicknefs is of unburnt Bricks, with a little Stone Wall 

 within : The Rampart of the Baftions has five Fathoms of 

 Earth, laid with unequal Planks, to ferve for a Platform 

 for the Cannon, the whole of unfolid Mafonry, becaufe ill 

 built. 



Artillery, Every Baftion is vaulted, and has its Magazine of Pow- 

 der, Balls, and other Neceffaries, for the Service of the 

 Artillery that is mounted on it. There are generally two, 

 three, or four Pieces of Brafs Cannon always mounted on 

 each of them ; in the whole Compafs there were in my 

 Time 41, and there are to be 70 of feveral Sizes, from 

 12 to 24 Pounders, Spaniflo Weight, which with u$ makes 

 Baftard Bores. Among thofe Pieces threre are ioXulve- 

 nns from 17 to 18 Foot long, and 24 Pounders, whereof 

 there are eight mounted, to fire upon the Road, which are 

 faid to carry as far as the Point de la Galera, of the Ifland 

 of S. Laurence^ which is almoft two Leagues. 



Befides the Artillery on the Rampart, there are nine Field- 

 Pieces mounted, and ready for Service. There are alfo 

 above 120 Brafs Guns of feveral Sizes, defign'd for the 

 King's Ships, callM La Almiranta^ La Capitana, and El 

 Goviemo, which ferv'd when the Galeons ,c#me to Porto- 

 belo to convoy the dlfinadilla, or little Fleet of Pana?na,and 

 to tranfport to Pern the Commodities that came from 



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