The buildings were in a most ruinous state, and the gun-carriages quite rotten.

Mr.Wickham remarked to the commanding officer, that with one discharge they would certainly all fall to pieces.

The poor man, trying to put a good face upon it, gravely replied, "No, I am sure, sir, they would stand two!" The Spaniards must have intended to have made this place impregnable.

There is now lying in the middle of the courtyard a little mountain of mortar, which rivals in hardness the rock on which it is placed.

It was brought from Chile, and cost 7000 dollars.