. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. ire imports from America were 12,630,000/. that city, for its share, had 11,280,000/.;and of the whole exports, amounting to 4,300,000/., it had 3,600,000/. Notwithstandingsevere shocks, in consequence of political revolutions, and the war with England, it alwaysrevived, and derived a temporary greatness from becoming the capital of tiie constitutionalgovernment. It received, however, its mortal blow by the separation of the colonies. Themerchants, deprived thus of almo
. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. ire imports from America were 12,630,000/. that city, for its share, had 11,280,000/.;and of the whole exports, amounting to 4,300,000/., it had 3,600,000/. Notwithstandingsevere shocks, in consequence of political revolutions, and the war with England, it alwaysrevived, and derived a temporary greatness from becoming the capital of tiie constitutionalgovernment. It received, however, its mortal blow by the separation of the colonies. Themerchants, deprived thus of almost their only employment, have been reduced to the fundsalready accumulated, and have in a great measure retired from the confined situation ofCadiz to the pleasant sites and villages which are scattered round the bay. The city issituated on a small neck of land, at the point of the long Isle of Leon. It does not boast anyremarkable structures, but the whole is elegantly built in regular squares, and streets witli asquare court in the centre and an awning over it Population 53,000. 321 ,ivl?3!;^^s|-^-/^ps:v^-^ ^. ^ ^-t^. 588 DESCRIPTIVE GEOGrwVPIIY. Part IU. 322
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