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Rh and are therefore not cannon proof. It has two gates, one to the eat, and the other to the wet.

The wetern gate which looks towards the land, is pretty large; and here the main guard is kept, the oldiers of the guard lying on the right and left of it, under the wall, which being hollow, erves them intead of a guard houe. The eat gate towards the ea, is but mall, and protected only by a file of muquteers. In the middle of the fort tands the Governor's houe, in which are apartments for the Company's ervants: it is a handome, lofty, quare, tone building; the firt rooms are acended by ten or twelve teps, and from thence another