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cular perfon to remove the nuifance, it is negligently left 
time and accident. While we were here, a dead buffalo lay 
upon the lhoal of a river that ran through one of the principal 
ffreets above a week, and at laft was carried away by a flood. 
The houfes are in general well adapted to the climate; they 
confift of one very large room or hall on thegrotind floor, with 
a door at each end, both which generally Hand open : at one 
end a room is taken off by a partition, where the mafter of the 
houfe tranfadts his bufinefs ; and in the middle between each 
end there is a court, which gives light to the hall, and at the 
fame time increafes the draught of air. From one corner of 
the hall the flairs go up to the floor above, where alfo the rooms 
are fpacious and airy. In the alcove, which is formed by the 
court, the family dine; and at other times it is occupied by the 
female flaves, who are not allowed to fit down any where elfe. 
The public buildings are, moft of them, old, heavy, and 
ungraceful; but the new church is not inelegant ; it is built 
with a dome, that is feen from a great diftance at fea, and 
though the outfide has rather a heavy appearance, the infide 
forms a very fine room: it is furnilhed with an organ of a 
proper flze, being very large, and is moft magnificently illu- 
minated by chandeliers. 
The town is inclofed by a ftone wall, of a moderate height; 
but the whole of it is old, and many parts are much out of re- 
pair. This wall itfelf is furrounded by a river, which in fome 
places is fifty, and in fome a hundred yards wide: the flream 
is rapid, but the water is (hallow. The wall is alfo lined within 
by a canal, which indifferent parts is of different breadths; 
fo that, in palling either out or in through the gates, it is 
neceffary to crofs two draw-bridges; and there is no accefs for 
idle people or ftrangers to walk upon the ramparts, which feem 
to be but ill provided with guns. 
In the north eaft corner of tlffe town Hands the caftle or cita- 
del, the walls of which are both higher and thicker than thofe ■> 
of the town, efpecially near the landing-place, where there is 
depth of water only for boats, which it completely commands, 
with feveral large guns that make a very good appearance. 
Within this caftle are apartments for the Governor General, 
and all the Council of India, to which they are enjoined to re- 
pair in cafe of a fiege. Here are alfo large ftorehoufes, where 
great quantities of the Company’s goods are kept, efpecially 
thofe that are brought from Europe, and where almoft all their 
writers tranfaft their bufinefs. In this place alfo are laid up 
a great number of cannon, whether to mount upon the walls 
or furnifti (hipping, we could not learn ; and the Company is 
faid to be well fupplied with powder, which is difperfed in 
various magazines, that if fome fhoull be deftroyed by light- 
ning, which in this place is very frequent, the reft may efcape. 
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