TRAVELS IN 
which, with the road or entrance. Is defended by a 
block-houfe built on the extremity of that point, 
which at the fame time ferves the purpofe of a 
fortrefs and look-out tower. There ate feveral 
rivers which run into this great bay from the con- 
tinent, but none of them navigable for large craft, 
to any confiderable diftance into the country : the 
Shambe is the largeO:, which admits fhallops fome 
miles up, and perriauguas upwards of fifty miles. 
There are fome fpots of good high land, and rich 
fwamps, favourable for the production of rice on 
the banks of this river, which have given rife to 
fome plantations producing Indigo, Rice, Corn, 
Batatas, &c. Thefe rivers dividing and fpreading 
abroad their numerous branches, over the ex- 
panfive flat low country (between the two great 
rivers Apalachucla and Mobile), which confills of 
favannas and cane meadows, fill them with brooks 
and water courfes, and render them exuberant paf- 
ture for cattle. 
There are feveral hundred habitations m Penfa- 
cola; the governor's palace is a large (tone build- 
ing ornamented with a tower, built by the Spani- 
ards. The town is defended by a large flockado for- 
trefs, the plan a tetragon with falient angles at each 
corner, where is a block-houfe or round tower, one 
ftory higher than the curtains, where are light cannon 
mounted : it is conftructed of wood. Within this 
fortrefs is the council chamber ; here the records are 
kept, houfes for the officers and barracks for the ac- 
commodation of the garrifon, arfenal, magazine, 
&c. The fecretary refides in a fpacious, neat build- 
ing : there are feveral merchants and gentlemen of 
other profefTions, who have resectable' and conve- 
nient buildings in the town, 
There 
