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different places, which are changed every week. Some views 
of East Indian antiquities, and remarkable buildings, were well 
displayed, as also, a representation of a hall in the former pri¬ 
sons of the Inquisition at Goa, not so good; and a couple of views 
in Japan and Macao, in China. The examination of all the 
objects, detained us until evening. We then accompanied the 
ladies home, they lived in a country-house, a mile below the 
Fauxbourg Marigny, on the Levee. It was eight o’clock as we 
descended the Levee; the evening was clear, with star-light; the 
bustle in the harbour had ceased ; we only remarked on board 
of some ships the sailors collected on the deck, under an 
illuminated awning, where the captain held evening divine ser¬ 
vice. Precisely at eight o’clock, the retreat-gun fired at the 
City Hall, which is the signal for the negroes to return home, 
immediately after, the two Colombian brigs fired, the drums and 
bugles sounded the retreat, while the barracks of the infantry 
did the same. All this, added to the lighted ships, and the soli¬ 
tary gleams from the opposite side of the river, made an impres¬ 
sion upon me, which I cannot venture, to describe. The wretched 
miry way, in which we nearly stuck fast, was almost forgotten. 
One of the gentlemen accompanying us, had the politeness to 
send me home in his chaise. This was a pleasant attention to 
me, for there are drunken sailors, and fellows of the low^er class, 
(which are called here, as in Mexico, Guichinangos,) in great 
numbers here, and as these creatures have a strong propensity to 
street-robbing and stabbing, it is not very prudent to be alone 
on a dark evening, upon this deserted road. 
In an excursion to the country-house of Mr. David Urquhart, 
I observed the great injury done by the coco, before alluded to, 
in his garden; it covered both the walks and beds, from which 
daily industry will not root it out. In the vegetable garden, I 
found most lands of those used in Europe, the peas were as 
large on the 13th of March, as they are in Flanders on the be¬ 
ginning of June; we ate of green peas full three weeks ago. 
The melons are first deposited in beds of manure, to force them 
for earlier use, and when they begin to sprout, are planted 
afresh in the field. The soil is so rich, that it does not require 
manure. I noticed several fruit trees of various kinds, but was 
informed, that the fruit produced by them, on account of the 
intense heat of summer, would not be of good quality. 
The brig Arcturus arrived on the 14th of March from Boston, 
with a cargo of ice. This article is very conducive to comfort in 
a warm climate, but it is exceedingly difficult to preserve it. 
Where there is water every where two feet below the surface of 
the earth, of course, ice-vaults are impracticable. The cargo 
which now arrived, was thrown into a large brick building, and 
