LES CAPUCINS

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    A staircase, partly carved in the cliff leads to underground batteries.

  The rooms down there sheltered two huge guns that were meant to tear the metal plating of the man-of- wars of that period. 

         
       

     4         5   The range of artillery was important but, in fact, they had almost to fire in carrying end by the narrow openings drilled in the cliff .(5)

  The powder magazine is located at the entrance of the gun battery with its double-walls which helped to maintain the dryness of the gun powder. The walls are partly derelict.(4)