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Rh pfectly round, a pike high & proportionally thick with a ditch on yᵉ outside; part of it is throwne downe & levell'd. This is yᵗ part of it which is call'd Le Chasteau de Sedeman. It seemes to haue ben as it were yᵉ Prætoriū, fort or Retiring place upon occasion of disorder in yᵉ Camp. At another place called Le Vallet close to yᵉ shore not faire from Bouley bay in yᵉ same Parish beginneth another worke, reaching frō thence all along the Browe of steepe hills as farre as Rosell hauen very thicke high & strong about two or three hundred paces in lenght where it begins; because nature hauing ben sparing to fortifye that place, it was necessary that Art should supplye it: but in other parts the hills are a sufficient fortification, except close to that hauen, where the worke is continued downe to the sea. It hath the sea of yᵉ one side, & a deepe valley on yᵉ other, & soe makes a peninsula about a mile in lenght, but not aboue halfe soe broad: yᵉ ground none of yᵉ best, with a good spring of water, but noe appearance of any ancient building within that compasse. The people thereabouts will haue it to be the Retrenchment of some who had inuaded the Island. But I take it to be yᵉ worke rather of a flying then pursuing enemy, it being made for deffense & not for offense.