The
Harbour Is Well Sheltered From The Wind; But Has Not Water
Sufficient To Admit Vessels Of Any Great Burthen.
Towards the
north, the king of Sardinia's territories extend to within a mile
of the gate; but the prince
Of Monaco can go upon his own ground
along shore about five or six miles to the eastward, as far as
Menton, another small town, which also belongs to him, and is
situated on the seaside. His revenues are computed at a million
of French livres, amounting to something more than forty thousand
pounds sterling: but, the principality of Monaco, consisting of
three small towns, and an inconsiderable tract of barren rock, is
not worth above seven thousand a year; the rest arises from his
French estate. This consists partly of the dutchy of Matignon,
and partly of the dutchy of Valentinois, which last was given to
the ancestors of this prince of Monaco, in the year 1640, by the
French king, to make up the loss of some lands in the kingdom of
Naples, which were confiscated when he expelled the Spanish
garrison from Monaco, and threw himself into the arms of France:
so that he is duke of Valentinois as well as of Matignon, in that
kingdom. He lives almost constantly in France; and has taken the
name and arms of Grimaldi.
The Genoese territories begin at Ventimiglia, another town lying
on the coast, at the distance of twenty miles from Nice, a
circumstance from which it borrows the name.
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