from the Harbour: but so many as appear in sight, with a great mixture of Trees between them, and all placed on a rising Hill, make a very pleasant Prospect; as may be judg'd by the Draught, [Table III. No. 5.]
There are in the Town 13 Churches, Chapels, Hospitals, Convents, beside one Nunnery; viz. the Ecclesia Major or Cathedral, the Jesuits College, which are the chief, and both in sight from the Harbour: St. Antonio, Sta. Barbara, both Parish-Churches; the Franciscans Church, and the Dominicans; and two Convents of Carmelites; a Chapel for Seamen close by the Sea-side, where Boats commonly land, and the Seamen go immediately to Prayers; another Chapel for poor People, at the farther end of the same Street, which runs along by the Shore; and a third Chapel for Soldiers, at the edge of the Town, remote from the Sea; and an Hospital in the middle of the Town. The Nunnery stands at the outer-edge of the Town next the Fields, wherein by Report there are 70 Nuns. Here lives an Archbishop who has a fine Palace in the Town; and the Governor's Palace is a fair Stone-building, and looks handsome to the Sea, tho' but indifferently furnish'd with-in: both Spaniards and Portuguese in their Plantations abroad, as I have generally
