a sea-port town of North America, New Spain, with a very secure and commodious harbour, defended by a fort. Here the flotilla annually arrives from Spain to receive the produce of the gold and silver mines of Mexico; and at the same time a fair is held here for all manner of rich merchandise brought from China and the East Indies by way of the South sea, and for the merchandise of Europe by the way of the Atlantic ocean. This town is not two miles in circumference; and about it there is a wall of no great strength on the land-side. The air is unwholesome; and there are very few Spaniards here unless when the flotilla arrives, and then it is crowded with people from all parts of Spanish America. It is 200 miles south-east of Mexico. W. Long. 37. 25. N. Lat. 19. 12.