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CHAPTER IV. ¬The Author is introduced to the Amusements and Gaieties of Swaloal. ¬The sun next clay, though there was certainly nothing new for him to see, had finished never- theless full twelve hours of his diurnal course, be- fore, as I was told, there was any thing wider the sun to be seen ; and it was not, therefore, till four in the evening, that our horses were at the door for our mornings ride ; — we then proceeded towards the royal park, in the favourite environ of the town, and I must say, that the most partial re- membrance of England, as we entered it, raised up in my mind no rival to its beauties. ¬It is several miles in circumference, and at one end of it there is a royal palace, surrounded with a delightful garden, — to both which splen- did demesnes of Royalty the whole people of ¬that ¬
