 | Thomas Shaw - Africa, North - 1808 - 516 pages
...we turn into the Bastion. where there is a small creek, and the ruins of a fort, that gave occasion to the name. The factory of the French African company...had formerly their settlement at this place; but the unwholesoinencss of the situation, occasioned by the neighbouring ponds and marshes, obliged them to... | |
 | R. P. Forster - Voyages and travels - 1818 - 508 pages
...we turn into the Bastion, where there is a small creek, and the ruins of a fort, that give occasion to the name. The factory of the French African company...ponds and marshes, obliged them to remove to La Calle, another inlet, three leagues farther to the east, where those gentlemen have a magnificent house and... | |
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Bastion, where there is a small creek, and the ruins of a fort, that give occasion to the name. The factory of the French African company had formerly their settlement at this place ; but the unwholesomeness of the situation, occasioned by the neighbouring... 