1 6 2 Mr.  miller’s  Account  of 
in  1761;  When,  after  taking  the  place,  they  thought  it 
not  worth  keeping,  and  accordingly  blew  up  the  baffions, 
and  deferted  the  fettlement. 
The  houfes  here  are,  almoft  all,  built,  cieled,  roofed, 
and  floored,  with  a kind  of  reed  called  bamboo,  and 
thatched  with  the  leaves  of  the  fage-tree,  and  would  all 
be  called  cottages  in  England,  making  a very  mean  ap- 
pearance. They  are  placed  in  no  kind  of  order;  moft  of 
them  are  raifed  from  the  ground  on  wood  or  brick  pil- 
lars fix  or  eight  feet  high;  within  they  are  not  much 
unlike  a fet  of  rooms  in  a college,  as  they  confift  of  one 
large  room  called  a hall,  out  of  which  two  doors  lead, 
the  one  to  a bed-room,  and  the  other  to  an  office  or  ftudy. 
The  climate  is  far  from  being  fo  difagreeably  hot  as  it 
is  reprefented  to  be,  or  as  one  might  expefl  from  our 
vicinity  to  the  line ; the  thermometer  (of  which  I have 
kept  a journal  for  a year  paft)  is  never  lower  in  a morn- 
ing at  fix  than  69°,  or  higher  than  76°.  At  noon  it 
varies  from  790  to  88°;  and  at  eight  p.  m.  from  730  to 
78°  or  8o°.  I have  once  only  feen  it  at  90%  and  in  the 
Batta  country,  immediately  under  the  line,  I have  feen 
it  frequently  at  fix  a.  m.  as  low  as  6 1°.  We  have  always 
a fea-breeze,  which  fets  in  at  about  nine  o’clock,  and 
continues  to  Sun-fet,  and  is  generally  pretty  frelh : this 
tempers  the  heat  fo  much,  that  I have  never  been  incom- 
moded 
