VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR. ^OI 



** burgh, confifts of three baftions, each of 

 ** which is mounted with one cannon. This 

 ** fort is of wood, and is built upon flakes 

 " driven into the earth. I dare venture to 

 ** affirnnf that both it and the houfes' are al- 

 ** ready in need of being rebuilt; for all the 

 " wood was in a ftate of rotten nefs, occa- 

 ** fioned by the moifture- The tongue of 

 " land upon which Louifburgh flands is 

 ** connected on one fide with Pojt Choifeul, 

 " an excellent harbour, and capable of re- 

 ** ceivingfeveral large velTels. A fpacious and 

 " beautiful river, called by the Malegaches 

 Linguebate, gives this tongue of land 

 the form of a peninfula. The river Lin- 

 ** guebate is an hundred and eighty fathoms 

 '* in breadth j it is navigable j and I fol- 

 ** lowed it« couvfe in a boat for the fpace 

 *' of feven leagues. At this diftance it is 

 an hundred and fifty fathoms in breadth. 

 On the banks of this river Benyowiki 



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