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port tobacco and fnuff is capital, or at leaft 

 the perfon who imports it is condemned to the 

 gallics for life : but they except that which 

 the Spaniards bring from their American co- 

 lonies. A fnuff-box therefore, if full of fnuff, 

 may occafion great trouble to the bearer. 



Cadiz, or Cadis, or, as the Englim fome- 

 times call it, Cafes, is the principal fea-port in 

 Spain ; it contains a great number of inhabi- 

 tants, is fituated on the fea-fhore of the pro- 

 vince of Andalufia, at the extremity : of an 

 ifland, in 36 deg. 33 min. north latitude and 

 23 deg. 45 min. weft longitude from Upfai. 

 The city is furrounded with fine gardens and 

 fortifications, and is faid to have three hun- 

 dred brafs cannon d . 



d The origin and antiquities of this town are defcribed by 

 Juan Baptijia Suarez de Salazar, in his Antigv.edades de la 

 ci-udad de Cadiz, 1610, quarto, 31 7 pages; and afterwards 

 in the Emporio de el orbe, Cadiz illujlrada, in-jejligacion de 

 /us antiguas grandezas, dijcurjlda en concurfo de el general 

 imperio de Efpaua por el R. P. F. Geronimo de la conception, 

 religicfo dcfcalzo de el order de nuejlra Senora de el Carmine, 

 y gaditano de crigen, que la dedica a la ?nuy noble y bitty leal 

 civdad de Cadiz, Amiterd. fol. 1680, 663 pages: the 

 price of it here at Cadiz is four pefos duros, that is, about 

 feventecn (hillings and fix pence fterling. 



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