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154 another pair of tairs leads to the council chamber: and the Governor's lodgings.

The fort tands near the centre of the white-town where the Europeans inhabit. This is an oblong quare, about a quarter of a mile in lengthy but not half o much in breadth. To the northward of the fort are three handome treets, and as many to the fourth: the buildings are of brick; and everal of the houes have one floor above the ground floor. Their roofs are flat, and covered with a plaiter made of ea-hells, which no rain can penetrate. Oppoite the wet gate of the fort is along room where the oldiers lodge when