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Letters From T. Dunckerley, Esq.
of gallery or balcony all along , much like those we have in some of our stage-inns in London , which is extremely agreeable , as by this means the least breath of air that stirs in the warm season of the year in this hot climate , is brought into the apartments for the benefit of the sick . This hospital is served b y a physician , surgeon , and two mateswith assistants . Near to this the barracks
, proper are for the soldiers , a neat and regular piece of building of free-stone ; it is in form a long square with two wings ; the apartments are neat and commodious . A little further lies a great plain of sand , called , from its colour , the Red Sand , which is the common biirying-place of the garrison ; at the North end of this sand is the place where ships send their boats for watercalled the Ragged Staff
, , a very convenient place for watering the largest fleet , and affords abundance of most excellent water . About a quarter of a mile from this place is the South-port gate , by which you enter the town , which consists of a small number of houses , very low and ill-built , and , upon the whole , cuts a very mean fi gure . The governor has , indeed , a verv hand .
some house and gardens , which were formerly a convent , aud still retains that name . There are a great number of Jews here , who seemed to me to be used chiefly as luggage-porters , for you will see three or four of these circumcised gentlemen with a great chest or bale hanging by the middle on a long pole , which they cany across their shoulders , and so trud ge along with it at a surprising rate . Their usual dress is a little short bktck cassock , bound round their middle with
a piece of blue or other coloured linen , and falling down , in a kind of close drawers , as low as their knees . They always go . barefoot through choice , by reason of the heat of the climate , and partly through poverty . Gibraltar is a place of very great trade for cloths , silk , & c . and contains upwards of 4000 inhabitants , exclusive of a garrison of jooo always kept here . From the town we go out by the Landiport gate into the lines , which run and meet those of tne
Spaniards upon tlie little neck of land or marsh which joins Gibraltar to the Spanish main . This gate is about a mile distant from the South-port gate , being the length of the garrison . Near it is the Waterport , or Old Mole , formerly the plate for careening ships , but since the building of the newb } the English , it only serves as a kind of haven for market-boats , x ' ebeques , & c . There is a very handsome parade for the troopsabout half the bigness of that
, at Whitehall . _ Opposite to this hill lies the town of Old Gibraltar , in the possession of the Spaniards , who are frequently spectators of their own ships made prizes , and brought in by us under their inspection . I have the honour to be , & c . THOMAS DUNCKERLEY .
The Earl of CHESTERFIELD , LONDON- .
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Letters From T. Dunckerley, Esq.
of gallery or balcony all along , much like those we have in some of our stage-inns in London , which is extremely agreeable , as by this means the least breath of air that stirs in the warm season of the year in this hot climate , is brought into the apartments for the benefit of the sick . This hospital is served b y a physician , surgeon , and two mateswith assistants . Near to this the barracks
, proper are for the soldiers , a neat and regular piece of building of free-stone ; it is in form a long square with two wings ; the apartments are neat and commodious . A little further lies a great plain of sand , called , from its colour , the Red Sand , which is the common biirying-place of the garrison ; at the North end of this sand is the place where ships send their boats for watercalled the Ragged Staff
, , a very convenient place for watering the largest fleet , and affords abundance of most excellent water . About a quarter of a mile from this place is the South-port gate , by which you enter the town , which consists of a small number of houses , very low and ill-built , and , upon the whole , cuts a very mean fi gure . The governor has , indeed , a verv hand .
some house and gardens , which were formerly a convent , aud still retains that name . There are a great number of Jews here , who seemed to me to be used chiefly as luggage-porters , for you will see three or four of these circumcised gentlemen with a great chest or bale hanging by the middle on a long pole , which they cany across their shoulders , and so trud ge along with it at a surprising rate . Their usual dress is a little short bktck cassock , bound round their middle with
a piece of blue or other coloured linen , and falling down , in a kind of close drawers , as low as their knees . They always go . barefoot through choice , by reason of the heat of the climate , and partly through poverty . Gibraltar is a place of very great trade for cloths , silk , & c . and contains upwards of 4000 inhabitants , exclusive of a garrison of jooo always kept here . From the town we go out by the Landiport gate into the lines , which run and meet those of tne
Spaniards upon tlie little neck of land or marsh which joins Gibraltar to the Spanish main . This gate is about a mile distant from the South-port gate , being the length of the garrison . Near it is the Waterport , or Old Mole , formerly the plate for careening ships , but since the building of the newb } the English , it only serves as a kind of haven for market-boats , x ' ebeques , & c . There is a very handsome parade for the troopsabout half the bigness of that
, at Whitehall . _ Opposite to this hill lies the town of Old Gibraltar , in the possession of the Spaniards , who are frequently spectators of their own ships made prizes , and brought in by us under their inspection . I have the honour to be , & c . THOMAS DUNCKERLEY .
The Earl of CHESTERFIELD , LONDON- .