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 other to the Town (of twenty ix or twenty eight Arches) is half of Stone, made by the Dutch, who in their Time had little Shops and gaming Houes on each Side for Recreation.

The Pavements alo of the Town are in ome Places of broad Tiles, the remaining Fragments of their Conquet. The Town has the outer Branch of the River behind it, and the Harbour before it, jetting into which latter are cloe Keys for the weighing and receiving of Cutomage on Merchandize, and for the meeting and conferring of Merchants and Traders. The Houes are trong built, but homely, letticed like thoe of Libon, for the Admiion of Air, without Cloets, and what is wore, Hearths; which makes their Cookery conit all in frying and tewing upon Stoves; and that they do till the Fleh become tender enough to hake it to Pieces, and one Knife is then thought ufficient to erve a Table of half a Score.

The greatet Inconvenience of Pernambuca is, that there is not one Publick-Houe in it; o that Strangers are obliged to hire any ordinary one they can get, at a Guinea a Month: And others who come to tranact Affairs of Importance, mut come recommended, if it were only for the ake of Privacy.

The Market is tocked well enough, Beef being at five Farthings per l. a Sheep or Goat at nine Shillings, a Turkey four Shillings, and Fowls two Shillings, the larget I ever aw, and may be procured much Cheaper, by hiring a Man to fetch them out of the Country. The dearet in its kind is Water, which being fetch’d in Veels from Olinda, will not be put on Board in the Road under two Cruado’s a Pipe.

The Portuguee here are darker than thoe of Europe, not only from a warmer Climate, but their many Intermarriages with the Negroes, who are nume-