OPO 
the performance, Oporinus left him, and fet up a fchool for 
inftru€ting young people in the claffics at Bafil. At le ae 
he went into the printing os in partnerfhip w 
ve himfelf, scoring 
es a 
which he had not corrected himfelf. His nde was not 
requited by good fortune: perhaps he was too muc a 
{cholar to be a fuccefeful man of butinefs. He war in debt 
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purgata;’’ “* Propriorum ominu m 
of his Latin letters are printed in a collection of epiftles o 
rts at Utrecht in 1697 ri. 
ORTO, or Porto, in Geography, the largeft city, 
Lifton excepted, and fea-port, of Portugal, in the province 
é Minho, fituated on the declivity of a hill, 
an elev ae “Svation near the river Duero, and about 
ehrec-fanrths of a ue from its mouth. It is the chief 
town of a pele oie and the feat of a corregedor, a 
provedor, and a military governor, being a place of arms: 
it is alfo the fee of a bifhop, who chiefly a at Mezan- 
frio. Murphy ftates the number of inhabitants at 63,505 ; 
but Link, on the authority of the corregedor, eftimates the 
population at this time to be about 30,000. Oporto has 
four fuburbs, feven’ parifhes, and twelve ar houfes, 
On one fide ee remains | : hes wall fil se 
otherwife the to and 
It is the cam: oF the high ‘tribunal fo ‘the northern pre 
vinc e quay on river is built without art; on 
one fide i is a ftreet, the other fide is walled eth ie though « 
merely for the purpofe of making fhips’ cables Fro 
the feand rifes a Lae well-paved ftreet, with ae are on 
the hap leading to an equally handfome oblique feet. 
other ftreets along the declivity of the hill are narrow, 
crooked, and dirty ; but upon the hill are many fine, broad, 
ftraight ftreets, with a number of new and handfome houfes, 
All the buildings are regular, light and neat, and this town 
is allowed to be the cleaneft in Portu The fleep decli- 
vity of the hill on which the town is built renders walking 
and riding on horfeback or in carriages more laborious than 
in Lifbon. On the E. fide of the town, houfes are built 
againit fo fteep a part of the declivity over the ftream, that 
they can only be entered by fteps cut out of the roc 
This specie peas is compenfated in a degree, le 
cular: rang: their romantic fituation 
the profpe of =  oppoft bank, with its towns, cd 
aves 
oo ot of the people are very much 
formed on foie of the Englih, who are here more numerous 
and oa rane in li oan to the other rich inhabitants, 
at Lifbon. They have a kind of Cafino in a — me 
OPO : 
to be a dation for fhips 
ink, it rae that the Engh trade 
to Oporto far Lane that other nation 
> mouth of the river render the entrance into the harbour 
extremely narrow and very dang 
e to which, 
Ca- 
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nthe S. fide, is site a ery fal Tl fort, called Santa 
aa with a few other bat 
Immediately oppofite : Oporto on the S. bank of the 
Duero, is the appearance of a town not much {maller than 
Oporto itfelf. T’o the Gat along the cael of 
a hill, are aie detached houfes, aan the market-town 
of « a place remarkable both for its feuation and 
name. n former times a place called ¢* Cale, 
of by the ca. is faid to have flood ; 
afterwards built, as mo 
ort 
“© O Porto,”’ (the h 
in along 
mm mee magazines where wine 
is kept till it is exported. A monaftery on igh, 
toward the ap very fteep hill, completes the ene of ie 
view to the a aie | It is {aid that the number of inha- 
the detached 
nite in rocks: thofe along the S. bank of ftratified granite 
and mica-flate. Traces every where appear of metallic veins 
of copper pyrites, malachite, and other metals; and alon 
the ank, al aera st a copper-mine might be opened 
with great pro{pect of fuccefs. 
The climate of Oporto i is in winter damp and foggy, in 
Vou baa . its mountainous and woody fituation ; passed 
fo eg cooler than _elfewhere, though it feldom 
re, 
Portugal, regular winds ah in fummer, viz. in the morn 
ing the eaft wind, veering about noon towards = area and 
then to the weft, from which circumftance navigation re- 
ceives many advantages. The foil, though well edad 
is not productive ; but oranges are brought from Bra d 
arcelos, wine from the pper 
thofe produCtions which bear the name of this town are not 
grown 
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