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366 ANAM.
mile along the rampart, we were conducted to the
public granaries, consisting of a vast number of wellbuilt,
substantial storehouses. The greatest attention
has been bestowed upon every thing, and the powdermagazines
are erected in the midst of tanks.
" The palace of the king is surrounded on every side
with handsome and well-built rows of barracks. These
were uncommonly clean, and very complete in their
structure, and would lose little in comparison with the
best we have in England The citadel is a small
quadrangular building, with strong and lofty walls,
close to the palace,
liar interest."
not calculated to excite any pecu-
Of the palace itself, they could see nothing, except
on passing one or two of the gates, so completely is it
concealed by the barracks. The display of iron and
brass guns of all sorts and sizes, of mortars and am-
munition, in the artillery department, was truly sur-
"
prising. It was easy to perceive," Mr. Finlayson
says, u that the genius which had directed every thing
was French, and that the master-mind which had
created such great works, no longer presided over
them."
The principal bazar at Hue consists of a spacious
street about a mile in length, with shops on either side,
the
some of them paltry huts made of palm-leaves ;
with tiled or
rest more substantially built of wood,
thatched roofs. The poverty of the shops was here
very striking, and altogether, Hue and its inhabitants
appeared to great disadvantage in comparison with the
capital of Don-nai. There are few Chinese among the
population, which is stated to amount to 30,000 souls.
During the violent rains to which this part of Cochin
China is subject, the town is liable to be speedily in-
undated ; and people are seen moving
about the streets