look all the Iflinds in the Bay^ and defcry 
(ugh Ships as are upon the Coaft $ the 
houfes are for the moft part raifed on the 
Sca-banks and whayfed out with great in- 
duftry and coft, many of them ftanding up* 
on piles, clofe fogethcr on each fide the 
ftrcets as in London^ and fur niflied with ma- 
ny fair (hops, their materials are Brick, 
Stone, Lime, handfomcly contrived, with 
three meeting Houfcs or Churches^ and a 
Town-houfe built upon pillars where the 
Merchants may confer, in the Chambers a« 
bove they keep their monethly Courts^ 
Their ftreets are many and large, paved 
with pebble ftone,and the Scuth-iidc adorn- 
ed with Gardens zt}d Orchards The Town 
is rich and veiry populous^ much fiequented 
by Grangers, here is the dwelling of their 
Governour. On the North-weft and North- 
eaft two conftant Fairs are kept for daily 
Traffick thereunto. On the South there is a 
fmalU but plcafant Common where the Gal- 
lants a little before Sun-fet walk with their 
Marmaht 'M^d^mSyZS We do in Morefield/^ 
8cc. till the nine a clock Bell rings them 
home to thdr refpcdiive habitations, when 
prefently the Conftables walk their rounds 
to fee good ordeis kept, and to takeup 
loof^ people. Two miles from the towa, 
at 
