Cadiz
a city of Spain, capital of the province of the same name, which hospital, a city hall, a court house, and a public library. Pop. (1910) 8,375; at the extremity of a narrow tongue of land projecting 5 miles N. W. from the isle of Leon, 95 miles S. S. W. of Sethe province of the same name, which forms a part of Andalusia; is situated the W. and S. the Atlantic Ocean washes the city, and on the N. and N. E. the Bay of Cadiz, a deep inlet of the Atlantic, forming an outer and an inner bay. The city, which is walled and de- fended from the sea both by a series bay. The city, which is walled and defended from the sea both by a series of forts and by low shelving rocks, is a remarkably bright appearance, with about 2 miles in circuit, and presents its shining granite ramparts, and its of these flat roofs are also used as cisterns, the town being poorly supplied with water, which is brought from of these flat roofs are also used as with water, which is brought from Santa Maria, 6 miles to the N. by sea, and 19 by rail. The streets are well and there are some pleasant public paved and lighted, regular, but narrow, the Alameda, by the seaside. Cadiz has few public buildings of note; its two ecclesiastical architecture, but possess some excellent pictures by Murillo. It reached its highest prosperity after the discovery of America, when it became the depot of all the commerce with the New World; declined greatly as a commercial city after the emancipation of the Spanish colonies in South America; but again revived, owing partly to the extension of the Spanish railway sysnew lines of steamers. tem, and partly to the establishment of by the Spaniards Is in 1262.
Cadiz is one of the most ancient towns Phoenicians, under the name of Gaddir ("fortress"), about 1100 B. C. It afterin Europe, having been built by the ("fortress"), about 1100 в. c. It afterward passed into the hands of the Car- thaginians, from whom it was captured ward passed into the hands of the Carand under them it soon became a city by the Romans, who named it Gades, of vast wealth and importance. Occuit was taken by pied afterward by the Goths and Moors, fleet in the bay; nine years later Cadiz In 1587 Drake destroyed the Spanish was pillaged and burned by Essex; and in 1625 and 1702 it was unsuccessfully attacked by the English. From 1808 ots, Cadiz was blockaded by the French from February, 1810, until Aug. 25, forced them to raise the siege. It was 1812, when the victories of Wellington captured in 1823 for Ferdinand VII. by was the birthplace of the Spanish revthe French, who held it till 1828; and it olution of 1868, as well as the scene in about 65,000. 1873 of an Intransigente rising. Pop. about 65,000.
Wellington, England, Dec. 18, 1864. He was educated at Richmond College, London University. He came soon after to the United States, where he has since remained and has occupied prominent pulpits. From 1895 to 1900 he preached CADMIUM CADWALADER at the Metropolitan Temple, New York, and rugged plateaus offered obstacles from which he went in the latter year that were almost insuperable to military to the Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn. He was a forceful speaker and lectured widely, besides taking a prominent part in community efforts looking toward social betterment. He wrote "Charles Darwin and Other English Thinkers" (1911), and "Three Great Oxford Movements" (1915).