BdKizTown defcrib'^d, 5 1 
from the Harbour : but fo many as appear 
in fight, with a great mixture of Trees be- 
tween them , and all placed on a rifing 
Hill , make a very pleafant ProfpeQ: ; as 
may be judg’d by the Draught, [1 able III. 
N°. 5 ] 
There are in the Town ij Churches, 
Chapels, Hofpitals, Convents, befide one 
Nunnery ; vtz. the Ecclejia Major or Ca- 
thedral , the Jefuits College , which are 
the chief, and both in fight from the Har- 
bour : St. Antonio., St a. Barbara^ both Pa- 
rifh-Churches ; the Francifeans Church, 
and the Dominicans ; and two Convents 
of Carmelites ; a Chapel for Seamen clofe 
by the Sea-fide , where Boats commonly 
land , and the Seamen go immediately to 
Prayers ; another Chapel for poor People^ 
at the farther end of the fame Street, 
which runs along by the Shore ; and a 
third Chapel for Soldiers , at the edge of 
the Town, remote from the Sea; and an 
Hofpital in the middle of the Town. The 
Nunnery Hands at the outer-edge of the 
Town next the Fields, wherein by Report 
there are 70 Nuns. Here lives an Arch- 
bifhop who has a fine Palace in the 
Town ; and the Governor’s Palace is a fair 
Stone-building, and looks handfome to the 
Seaj tho’ but Indifferently furnifh’d with- 
in: hoixh Spaniards zndi Portuguefe in their 
Plantations abroad , as I have generally 
