1g 
the river and fea at high water, and be- 
hind, but at a good dittance, is the ridge 
of Jayfquivel, from which fide, however, 
it is not likely ever to be attacked. 
The town feemed to be in decay, the 
fortifications being negleéted, and the gar- 
rifon compofed of only a few invalids. It 
is, however, dignified with a governor and 
ftaff, in full form, befides having the title 
of a city conferred on it by Philip TV. en 
account of the gallant refiftance made in 
his reign, by the inhabitants as well as 
the garrifon, to the arms of Franee. 
On the cutfide of the walls, next to the 
river, are {till fhown marks of the can- 
nonide from the batteries erected con the 
French fide. 
After paying our refpe&ts as was cuilo- 
mary to the governer, attending him by 
his defire to the church, and atrerwards 
partaking of fome refrefhments with him, 
we were ferried over the river to: France, 
a little before high water, inabouta quar- 
ter of an hour, landing at Andaye, or more 
properly Hendaya, a village celebrated 
over all France, tor its l.queur called Fax- 
de-vie d Andaye. 
The Bidafloa falls into a bay formed 
on the welt, by the extr:mity of mount 
Jaysquivel, called Cape Higuera or Fi- 
gutere, and on the eait by the lower lands 
of France. At high water the river a>- 
pears very broad, but can only admit fsh- 
- 
ing-vellels and other finall crate up the. 
chanael between the fand banks. 
The little trade carricd on at Fontarra- 
bia confifts in iron and iron ore from the 
mines up the country, and thip-timber 
from the Pyrenees, for the docks at Fer- 
rol and other places. . 
Andaye was formerly a place of fome 
importance, but of late years the mer- 
chants have removed to other fi. uacions 
on the coaft, where they enjoy greater 
conveniencies for their fhioping and coin- 
merce than in the Bidafiua. 
The liqueur-manu’aSture has likewife 
much declined, fince in Paris and other 
Parts of France imitations of it have been 
fabricated, fuch as almoft to annihilate the 
demand for the genuine Hau-de-vie. 
The people cf Andaye pretend that 
‘the excellence of their liqueur yreceeds 
from certain peculiar qualities in ther 
grapes, which, however, yield but a very 
indifferent wine: but they admit that the 
criginal brandy is re€tified with Aaile 
and other rich carminatives. 
Having refted a fhort time at Andaye, 
we took the road to St. John de Luz, 
b-armg down to the left hand, along the 
fea fhore, fo as confidevably to vary our 
Account of the Caledonian Cani’. 
(Auzuft 1, 
route. The country confilts of low round 
hillocks covered with patlure and wood, 
and the fhore with furze and heath, afford 
ing food to fome flrageling flocks of fheep. 
The cottages were few, but decently 
built, and the inhabitants had a healthy 
com'ortable appearance. It 1s true, that 
this was on a Sunday, when they were 
jut returned, in their beft habits and 
faces, from their paiifh-churches. : 
The fhore prefents a horrid feene of 
immenfe bloeks of rock, fome overhang- 
ing the waves, that yradually fap their 
foundations, and cthers already under- 
mined and heaped ong on another at the 
bottom of the cliffs ; the whole prefent- 
ing inevitable deftruction to any veflel that 
may be drives on them. 
We reached St. John de. Luz at fix in 
the evening, intending next day to vifit the 
famous hermitage of Larhune, about five 
iniles fouth from the town. This hermi- 
_ tage is perched on the fummit of a conical 
mountain precipitous on all fides, and ter- 
minating in a peak rifing to the height of 
2,500 treet above the fea. 
This peak is one of the leading points 
ef the boundaries between Spain and 
France. Daring the fummer months it 
is the abcde of a hermit, who is alternate 
tv a Spaniard and a Frenchman, and who 
lives on that folitary fpot, much to his own 
advantage, no doubt, and the edification 
o: other men, on the pious offerings of the 
furrouading peafants, : 
The day, however, proving rainy, and 
the fummit of Larhune, like all the fitter. , 
points of the Pyrenees, being inveloped 17 
clouds, we were obliged to give up our 
projected expedition ; and we retyrned to 
Bayonne, by the ulual road, highly pleated 
with our trip to St. Sebaftian, and longing 
to comimence in earne(t our tour in Spain. 
(To be continued.) | 
eee 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
ACCOUNT OF THE CALEDONIAN 
CANAL. 
HE importance of the trade from the 
weftern ports of Great Britain, and 
from the po ts of Iveland, to the North 
fea and the Baltic, has long fuggefted the 
idea of fhoriening the navigable courfe of 
that trade, and giving it new fecurity, by 
canals which fhould enable the fhips of 
Liverpool, Glafgow, Belfat, &c. toavoid 
the very perilous paflage among the He- 
budz and the Orkney Ifks. 
By the publication of the Stat‘ftical Ac. 
count of Scotland, the annual loffes of that 
navigation were fhewn to be fo Bin 
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