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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 are 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 largeft, 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 fp reading 
abroad their numerous branches, over the ex- 
panfive flat low country (between the two great 
rivers Apalachula and Mobile), which confifts of 
favannas and cane meadows, fill them with brooks 
and water courfes, and render them exuberant 
pafture for cattle. 
There are feveral hundred habitations in Penfa-^ 
cola : the governor’s palace is a large ftone build- 
ing ornamented with a tower, built by the Spa- 
niards. The town is defended by a large ftockado 
fbrtrels, 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 conftrubted of wood. 
Within this fortrefs is the council chamber ; here the 
records are kept, houfes for the officers, and barracks 
for the accommodation of the garrifon, arfenal, 
magazine, &c. The fecretary refides in a fpacious, 
neat building : there are feveral merchants and 
gentlemen of other profeffions, who have relpedt- 
able and convenient buildings in the town. 
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