of the parochial churches here is equally remerkable for the taſteleſs profuſion with which the gilding is laviſhed 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 diſtance by wooden pipes through the mountains. The ſtreets are ill-paved; moſt of the windows are without glaſs-panes, lattices being uſed inſtead of them, which the women very frequently open, when curioſity, or any other motive, prompts them to let themſelves be ſeen.
Women of condition dreſs after the French faſhion; thoſe of the lower ranks cover their ſhoulders with a piece of coarſe woollen ſtuff, which forms a ſort of cloak very incommodious in this hot climate; broad-brimmed hats of felt ſhelter theirs faces from the rays of the ſun; intermarriages with the natives render their complexions darker than thoſe of their countrywomen; and their features are upon the whole rather diſagreeable.
The multiplicity of religious obſervances practiſed by the inhabitants were not ſufficient to prevent the women from going, with their chaplets in their hands, to meet our ſailors, whenever they came on ſhore, ſome of whom have had to re-
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