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impoffible for the enemies of the apoftle to move him to give 
any judgment on the 16. 
GALLIO, in Gagraph ,y, a town of Italy, in the Vicentin ; 
20 miles N. of Vic 
LION, or "Gasgn0x, smal denoted a large 
veflel, or ey of war, of three or four decks. 
GALLEON is now only u aed in {pea 3 ng of the Spanifh 
fleet ; ie galleons being a ie ef ic {hips employed in the 
commerce of the 
The Spaniards er a accuitomed to fend every year 
two fle ; the one for Mexico, which they call the flota ; 
and the = er for Peru, which they call the galleons. 
EON, Manila, isa fhip employed'in the trade fro 
Manila i in the ifland of Luconia, the chief of the Philippine 
iflands, to Acapulco on the coait aM exico. This fhip fets 
fail from Manila about wel and a 
ry 3 
The Lee eft 
xty guns. 
ains is 
but it is reafonable to conclude that the 
h fhort of three millions o 
thoutand spel 
principally to the Jefuits for “ fupport of their miflions ; 
and thefe-convents have a right to cabal fuch a quantity of 
goods on board the Manila fhip, as the tonnage of their 
bales amounts to, or to fell this privilege to others. This 
fhip, having difpofed of its effets at Acapulco, returns for 
March, where it generally arrives in 
near a 
and confiiting of. cochineal and fweet-meats, 
the leomiary ‘fettlements, European millinery ware for the 
a as tent and 
an 
panne in ie aoe. - ae till fhe came near cape St. Lucas 
yal ediéts, as it has been faid by fome, to fix hundred 
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and California, and apprehended an enemy. 
Voyage, chap. x. p. 232—2 
Thefe are all fhips of war, ‘and go on the king’s account ; 
but they are fo loaden and embarrafled with m merchandizes, 
that, in cafe of an attack, they find it difficult to defend 
themfelves. 
Befide the king’s galleons, pas are ufually twelve or fix- 
teen merchants fhips, calle ips, belonging to 
private perfons, who eae ie for the ase or rather 
Anfon’s 
uy it; there being no Weft India company in Spain 
"The BR alleons are loaded a t Cadiz, from hae Ge may 
put out at any time. They were formerly appointed to be 
out in nee that they might coaft along the firm land, 
and come about the middle oF. April to Porto Bello, where, 
the fair being over, they might take aboard the plate, and 
be at the Havannah with it about the middle of June, where 
the New — a would foon hy aon and the - might 
napa, taking 
But it has Been 4 
they ae about the Antilles iflands; the galleons for 
Carthagena and Porto Bello: and the flota for Vera Cruz. 
ae hi ‘return, they rejoin at the Havannah in the ifle of 
ie te 
ane of twenty thoufand crowns : 
fkins and leather, the a ia bring ba ne ae crowns 
worth: the flota as much. 
he ere oro 
may bring to ect two aac nan Sines crowns ; of cochi- 
neal about a on of crowns; and of indigo, about fix 
hundred ec ilake 
y a general pa ae in Spain, it has been eftablifhed 
that there fhould be twelve men of war an 
ve tenders fitted 
out annua fhi fix 
hu fa 
a tons, for the-ifland Margarita; and two of eighty 
ach to follow the armada. For the New Spain fleet two 
thips of fix hundred tons each, and two tenders of eighty 
each ; and for the Honduras fleet, two fhips of five a 
dred tons each ; and in cafe no flota happened to fail any 
year, three galleons and a tender fhould be fent to New 
Spain for the plate 
he aes of galleons bas been different at different 
times ; - 2 — ncreafed in time of war and diminifhed in time 
of pea 
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