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enjoy my meditations. War and its prepa- 
rations had rooted up the verdant turf, and 
the flowers which had added to its beauty 
were faded or elfe totally difappeared. The 
town had loft what to me was its greateft 
ornament, its moft bewitching charm. 
In the neighbourhood, the w^hole fhore, 
from Pointe dcs Pendus (gallows-point), near 
the Lion's Rump, to the bottom of the Bay, 
was defended by new works of every kind. 
The batteries Vv^ere every where increafed. 
Cannon, it is true, were wanting; but a fupply 
of thefe had been promifed from the Ifle of 
France; and, if I remember right, after a peace 
was concluded, they adually arrived. 
On the eaft the town itfelf was to be de- 
fended by a ftrong line of palifades, begin- 
ning at the fhore and ending at the bottom of 
the Devil Mountain. It was the Ifle of France 
again that was to furnifli the w^ood necefl^ary 
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