Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Historical Remarks and Anecdotes on the Castle of the Bastille: Translated From the French, Published in 1774
The cal'cle of the Baililleh'is lituatédbh'the' left bank of the Seine (as you afcend the river) near' the arfenal. Its entrande is at the end of the'ftreetn St Tdntoine, to the right. An ad vanced guard 18 fiationed there, with a fentry day and night. Near the guard-room are draw-bridges, with a great gate, and a wicket, leading to the court of the Hotel da Gouvernement. This is a modern building, feparated from the caf'cle by a ditch, over which are fecond draw-bridges, which paffed to arrive at a fecopd pair of gates, near which 13 another guard -rooi1;1. Beyond this, is a {trong barrier, a clair-ueye, formed of beams plated with iron, and very parates the guard-1oom from the re you reach this, you mul't pafs two draw tes, all of which have (entries, and three pofts of guards. -t court forms a fquare of about one hundred and twenty feet eighty, in which 15 a fountain.
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