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156 library. On the wet part of the town a river runs cloe to the buildings, which are protected by a large battery of guns commanding the plain beyond them. On the eat, there is a lightt one wall, built on an eminence, that appears omething grand to the hipping in the road; but here is very little occaion for any fortification, the ea coming up cloe to the town, and no largeg'veels can ride within two miles of the place, the ea is o very hallow; nor is there any landing but in the country beats, the urf runs o high, and breaks o far from the hore. The north and outh ends of the town, are each of them defended by a tone wall, which is hollow-within, like the fort walls, and would. hardly