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Some account of Batavia

paces broad, whose stream is rather brisk but shallow, incircles it without the walls, & within again is a canal very various in breadth, so that in passing out or in their gates you cross two draw bridges, this canal  useless as it seems, has however this merit, that it prevents all walking upon the ramparts as is usual in fortified towns, & consequently all idle examination of the Number or Condition of their guns, with which they seem to be very ill provided, all those that are seen being of very light metal, & the west side of the town, where alone you have an opportunity of seeing examining, being almost totaly unprovided

In the NE corner of the town stands the Castle or citadel, the walls of which are higher & larger than those of the town, especialy near the Landing place for boats, which it compleatly Commands, & where are mounted several very large & well looking Gunns, the neighbourhood however of the NE Corner, on both sides seems sufficiently weak, especialy on the east side,

 

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