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governor's chateau. 
The chateau, wherein the governor resides, 
is a plain building of common stone, situated 
in an open place, the houses round which, form 
three sides of an oblong square. It consists of 
two parts. The old and the new are separated 
from each other by a spacious court. The 
former stands just on the verge of an inaccessi¬ 
ble part of the rock ; behind it, on the outside, 
there is a long gallery, from whence, if a peb¬ 
ble were let drop, it would fall at least sixty 
feet perpendicularly. This old part is chiefly 
taken up with the public offices, and all the 
apartments in it are small and ill contrived ; 
but in the new part, which stands in front of the 
other, facing the square, they are spacious, and 
tolerably well finished, but none of them can 
be called elegant. This part is inhabited by the 
governor’s family. The chateau is built with¬ 
out any regularity of design, neither the old 
nor the new part having even an uniform front. 
It is not a place of strength, as commonly re¬ 
presented. In the garden adjoining to it is 
merely a parapet wall along the edge of the 
rock, with embrasures, in which a few small 
guns are planted, commanding a part of the 
lower town.. Every evening during summer, 
when the weather is fine, one of the regiments 
of the garrison parades in the open place before 
the chateau, and the band plays for an hour or 
two,, at which time the place becomes the re- 
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