ABSTRACT
P o n d is c e r y is the moft important place belonging to France ; the fortress is well built and well provided with munitions and ftores. The Governor of all the French possessions in India lives there with a large body of soldiers. Monsieur de Beuvalier was then Governor ; he had begun and built more than half of the fine solid walls enclosing the city with handsome gates and ftrong baftions. The city is large, the ftreets are wide and ftraight and some have avenues of trees which add to their beauty. Our Society has a house in Pondiscery, where the French Fathers lead a life of toil and abnegation and have made many converts among the heathens. Superior of the Mission at that time was the Revd. Father Bouchet, author of many books in the Tamulic
