Placentia (from Mount Pleasant)

Settled and fortified by the French in 1660. Placentia is most beautifully situated at the head of a spacious and magnificent harbor, in which over one hundred and fifty vessels can lie in safety, the entrance being only wide enough to admit one at a time. In the Anglican church-yard there is still to be seen some tomb stones with Basque inscriptions. Noted for being the birthplace of "Richard Brothers" the celebrated prophet who flourished in London, Eng., in the seventeenth century.