'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 Galleys. Below is a large Hall, which serves the Merchants and Sea-faring Men for an Exchange; and above Stairs the Consuls, Town-Councellors, and others concerned in the Civil Administration have their Meeting. The most valuable Piece in this Building, is the City Arms in the Front, Carved by the famous _Puget_. '_Marseilles_ seems still to retain somewhat of the ancient Government, of its four Courts, being divided into four Quarters, viz. S. _John_, _Cavaillon_, _Corps de ville_ and _Blancaire_; each of which hath its Governors and other Officers. The _Porte Royalle_ is well Adorned, having on one side the Figure of S. _Lazarus_, and on the other, that of S. _Victor_. And in the middle is a Busto of _Lewis_ XIV. with this Inscription over it, _Sub cujus imperio summa libertas_. 'The Town is encompass'd by good Walls, and a Tetragon which commands a Part of it, is the best of the two Citadels, and within Cannon Shot of a Fort call'd _Notre Dame de la Garde_, whither the Inhabitants frequently go to pay their private Devotion, and from whence they discover Ships at Sea at a great Distance. This Fort is built on the top of a Mountain, upon the Ruins of an ancient Temple of _Venus_, called _Ephesium_. The Country about this City is low and open for two Miles, agreeably adorn'd with Villas, Vineyards, and Gardens of Fig-Trees, and Orange-Trees, with plenty of Water from a good Spring, which being divided into several Branches serves to furnish the City. As to the Inhabitants, they are for the most part Poor and uncleanly, and chiefly Eaters of Fruit, Herbs, and Roots with such like meagre Fare, nor do they take any Pains to clean the Streets where the meaner Sort have their Habitation. Their Bread is very coarse and high priz'd; and perhaps what has principally contributed to the Progress of the Plague among them, was the great Numbers of those which Lodged together in the same House, as I shall explain hereafter; when I have examin'd the State of _London_, when it suffer'd by the Plague in the Year 1665.