A Voyage to the East Indies: Page 103

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A Voyage to the East Indies: Page 103

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The Island of St Helena lies in Lat.__ Long:__ measures from East to West 11 Miles, and from North to South 12 It is a very lofty rock, bearing in many places not the least signs of vegetation or Herbage & rising every where in rugged points and irregular steep precipices. Its external appearance is beyond Description horrid from the frowning aspect of the Rocks, and in some of the internal parts of the Country, prospects equally intimidating present themselves. The Hills are in one respect regular, being like so many radii proceeding from a point, leaving in the Interstices very deep vallies. To form a Road up those perpendicular rocky Mountains has been a work of immense Trouble and Expence, yet they have so happily succeeded that there remains no part of the Island inaccessible. These Roads are cut in oblique directions on the side of the Mountain, doubling and redoubling in the form of the Letter Z till they reach the Top, and supported on the descending side by a strong stone wall rising more than Breast high above the Levell of the road to prevent Horses from taking fright at the incredible depth below them. Two Horsemen may ride a breast in these Roads with great Ease. All those Interstices call’d Vallies where an Enemy might land, are defended with a Line of Guns, and some of them with Forts on the projecting points of the Rocks. In one of these Vallies is the Town and Garrison, call’d St James’s Valley, where the Houses are built in [end page 103]
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