CHAPTER III

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Cadiz--Its Foundation--Various Names--Past Prosperity--Made a Free Port in the hope of ruining the trade of Gibraltar--Unjust Restrictions on the Commerce of the British Fortress--Description of Cadiz--Its vaunted Agremens--Society--Monotonous Life--Cathedral--Admirably built Sea Wall--Naval Arsenal of La Carraca--Road to Xeres--Puerto Real--Puerto de Santa Maria--Xeres--Its Filth--Wine Stores--Method of Preparing Wine--Doubts of the Ancient and Derivation of the Present Name of Xeres--Carthusian Convent--Guadalete--Battle of Xeres 64

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