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Excerpt from The Flowers of Modern Travels, Vol. 2 of 2: Being Elegant, Entertaining, and Instructive Extracts, Selected From the Works of the Most Celebrated Travellers
To this citadel is only one entrance, which is over a draw-bridge. It is abouta mile in circumference, and well supplied with arms, ammunition, and war like stores, with barracks for'three thousand men. This fortress has been of such repute for strength and regularity, that it has a model for subsequent engineers notwithstanding which the French in s'746 took it in seven days.
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