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the fame name; for an account of this river 
and country, I refer you to the Travels of 
my old acquaintance Don Antonio d'Uloa. 
About forty years ago, I had the pleafure 
of his company from London to Lifbon. He 
was a Philofopher, and lamented much that 
the Inquifition would not permit him to 
fay, the Earth moves round the fun. You 
are now arrived at the Brafils, an extenfive 
country, the coaft of which is in pofTeffion 
of the Portugueze. Having doubled Cape 
St. Roque and pafllng the mouth of the vaft 
river of the Amazons, you touch at the 
Dutch fettlement of Surinam, and thence 
proceed along the coaft till you come to 
Curafao, an ifland, alfo in pofleflion of the 
Dutch. From this ifland they import that 
fuperior fpecies of Tobacco which they call 
Kanafter or Varinas y the name of a town on 
the Spanifli T^erra-frma^ in the neighbour- 
hood of which it is cultivated by the inha- 
bitants, who barter it with the Hollanders 
for European goods. 
Hence we continue our coafting voyage 
till we arrive at Carthagena and Portobello, 
names that were familiar to every indivi- 
dual in Britain when I was a boy. We 
were then at war with Spain. Portobello 
was 
