^Ot VOYAGE TO MABAGASCAK# 



** has conftruded feveral forts, the moft 

 ** confiderable of which is, at leaft, equal 

 *' in ftrength to that built for the defence 

 ** of Louifburgh, The banks of Lingue- 

 *' bate river are only four feet high at its 

 ** mouth : but the nearer you approach to 



its fource the more this height increafes* 

 *^ In following its fource I was much de- 



lighted with the beauty of the neighbour- 

 ** ing fields, which prefent a fpcdaclc highly 



interefting. 

 I at length arrived with M. de Belcombc 

 ** and M» Chevreau at a place called, by 

 ** Benyowfki, the Plam rf Heaitk Be- 



tween this place and Loulfburgh we vi- 

 ** fited feveral fmall forts, and fifteen vil- 

 ** higes, Benyowfki had boafted much to 

 ** us of the happy fituation of this place^ 



which was truly rural ; but we found 

 *^ that its denomination was altogether im- 

 " propen The Plain of Hmhb appeared 



** to 



