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modioufi docks ; and the harbour is per- 

 fedly fheltered from the fea winds by the 

 fmall if! and of St. Lucia, 



Scarcely had Pronis eftabliflied himfelf at 

 Manghefia, when Captain Refimont brought 

 him feventy people from France, to reinforce 

 his fmall colony* Bat the unwholefomenels 

 of the climate in the fpace of a month 

 deftroyed one third of the whole* Pronis 

 heing then obliged to abandon this fir ft 

 eftablifliment, notwithftanding its advan- 

 tageous fitaiation, retired precipitately with 

 the remains of his colony to the peninfuia 

 of Tholangar, the air of which is more fa- 

 Jubrious, 



This peninfuia, which is fituated ia the 

 twenty-fifth degree of latitude, increafes 

 infenfibly in breadth, and might eafily be 

 fecured from any attack of the illanders by 

 redoubts and palifades. The fort built here, 

 the elcvatioa of which above the fea is an 

 E 4 hundred 



