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Map of Antangil
Cities & Towns of Antangil
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arsenal was built on the corner of the said city, having a good one thousand four hundred paces of tower with lodgings, warehouses & large galleries, to spin the ropes, sew the sails, & to shelter all the other craftsmen necessary to the navy, & also to house the hemp, timber & other war munitions : all made of such beautiful & excellent architecture, that the place is admired by everyone. In the middle there is a large pond, which has eight or ten armfuls of artificially dug bottom, in which passes one of the arms of the river coming from this large lake, which we have said above to be ten leagues above Sangil. On the edge are arranged under certain covers a good two hundred subtle galleys, & a good fifty galleasses, & forty five galleons of the port of twelve to fifteen hundred tons ready for all events to be pushed into the water. This pond has a canal, which is about twenty paces wide, which goes to the sea by which all vessels are led there. As for the artillery, pikes, arquebuses, muskets, bows & arrows, they are without number. In addition, there are fifteen hundred artisans working there every day, both for the public, |