nhabited it six or Seven Years: Her Statue likewise is
represented, lying at the entrance of this Grotto. There is also a
rich Chappel of our Lady, wherein no Women are permitted to enter.
This Order was made, upon the Vulgar Notion, of a Queen's being
struck Blind, who had the Temerity to venture into it.

'In _Marseilles_ you observe likewise the Monasteries and Churches of
the _Carthusians_, the Monks of St. _Anthony_, the _Trinitarians_,
_Jacobins_, _Augustins_, Barefooted _Augustins_, _Carmelites_,
Barefooted _Carmelites_, _Cordeliers_, _Observantins_, _Servites_,
_Minims_, _Capuchins_, _Recollects_, _de la Mercy_, _Feuillans_,
_Jesuites_, Fathers of the _Oratory_, and of the _Mission_. There are
also _Benedictine_ Nuns, _Dominicans_, Nuns of S. _Clare_,
_Capuchins_, _Carmelites_, _Bernardines_, _Urselins_, Nuns of the
Visitation of Mercy, and of the good Shepherd or Repentance; and a
Commandry of _Malta_.

'The Citadel of _Marseilles_ is near the Port, extending its
Fortifications to the Entrance of the same; and yet it commands the
Town. The Key which lines this side of the Harbour, from Fort S.
_Nicolas_ to the Arsenal, is about fifteen hundred Paces long, and is
adorned with handsome Ware-Houses and Dwelling-Houses: Here is the
great Hospital for Sick Slaves, which was formerly the Arsenal before
the New one was built. Six large Pavilions, as many main Houses, and
a great square Place big enough to build several Galleys at a time
in, form the Design of it. In this Place are two large Basons, as
long and as deep as a Galley, in each of which, when a Galley is
ready to launch, they open a small Sluice which kept up the Sea
Water.

'This great Building makes one entire Front of the Port, three
hundred Paces in Length; the Harbour of _Marseilles_, is thirteen
hundred Paces long, and the Circumference about three Thousand four
hundred and fifty Paces. The Streets of the old Town are long, but
narrow; and those of the New are spacious, and well Built. The chief,
is that they call _le Cours_, which is near forty Paces broad, in the
middle of which is a Walk, planted with four Rows of young Elms,
which, with the Keys, are the Places of publick Resort.

'The Town-House which they call _La Loge_, is situate upon the Key
over against the Gall