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64 of the parochial churches here is equally remerkable for the tateles profuion with which the gilding is lavihed upon it, and the bad choice of its paintings.

In the market-place there is a fine fountain, the water of which is conveyed from a great ditance by wooden pipes through the mountains. The treets are ill-paved; mot of the windows are without glas-panes, lattices being ued intead of them, which the women very frequently open, when curioity, or any other motive, prompts them to let themelves be een.

Women of condition dres after the French fahion; thoe of the lower ranks cover their houlders with a piece of coare woollen tuff, which forms a ort of cloak very incommodious in this hot climate; broad-brimmed hats of felt helter theirs faces from the rays of the un; intermarriages with the natives render their complexions darker than thoe of their countrywomen; and their features are upon the whole rather diagreeable.

The multiplicity of religious obervances practied by the inhabitants were not ufficient to prevent the women from going, with their chaplets in their hands, to meet our ailors, whenever they came on hore, ome of whom have had to re- pent