A Journey Through Spain in the Years 1786 and 1787: With Particular Attention to the Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce, Population, Taxes, and Revenue of that Country; and Remarks in Passing Through a Part of France, Volumen2

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C. Dilly, 1791
 

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Página 114 - The largeft mirrors are made in a brafs frame, one hundred and fixty-two inches long, ninety-three wide, and fix deep, weighing near nine tons. Thefe are defigned wholly for the royal palaces, and for prefents from the king.
Página 294 - The mode of filling them with air is singular; for, instead of working with his hand, a man walks backwards and forwards along an inclined plane of about 1 5 feet in length, which is balanced in the middle on its axis ; under each end is a pair of bellows, of about six feet by three and a half.
Página 62 - ... year 1350, when the plague, which ravaged Europe for several years, had desolated Spain, leaving only one-third of its former inhabitants to cultivate the soil. But perhaps we ought to look for its origin in more remote and distant ages, when the whole country was occupied by shepherd nations. . . . Occupying the hills with their numerous flocks and herds, it was natural for them in winter to quit a country then covered deep with snow, and to seek the more temperate regions of the south ; till...
Página 308 - Hone - roller, moved by a large horfe, or mule, with the < traces fattened to a beam of eight feet in length, in the angle of forty-five degrees, confequently lofing precifely half his force.
Página 61 - ... (GPJ) October 4, as we descended towards Leon, we overtook a Merino flock, belonging to the monastery of Guadalupe, in Estremadura. These monks have sufficient land near home to keep their flock during the winter months ; but in the summer, when their own mountains are scorched, they send their sheep into the north, where, having no lands, they are obliged to pay for pasturage. They were on their return towards the south. The great lords, and the religious houses, to whom belong these transhumantes,...
Página 62 - ... country was occupied by shepherd nations. . . . Occupying the hills with their numerous flocks and herds, it was natural for them in winter to quit a country then covered deep with snow, and to seek the more temperate regions of the south ; till these, burnt up by the returning sun, refused them pasture, and drove them back again to the mountains of the north, which, during the summer months are covered with perpetual verdure by the gradual melting of the snow. The numbers of the Merino sheep...
Página 63 - The produce of the wool is reckoned to be about five pounds from every ewe, and eight from the wethers; and to shear eight of the former, or five of the latter, is reckoned a good day's work. Some indeed allow twelve sheep to every shearer ; but even this comes short of what we do in England, where a common hand will dispatch sixty in a day, and a good workman has been known to finish half as many more.
Página 294 - ... of about fifteen feet in length, which is balanced in the middle on its axis; under each end is a pair of bellows, of about fix feet by three and an half; th,efe communicate with five other pair...
Página 412 - ... of appearance, but I met with nothing like it. This great man, diminutive in stature, remarkably thin and bowed down with age, clad like a peasant . . . was sitting to receive morning visitors, in a room, the dimensions and furniture of which, for a few moments, diverted my attention from himself, the chief object of veneration. The room was twenty feet long by fourteen wide, and less than eight feet high. In this I saw dispersed confusedly, chairs, tables, trunks, boxes, books, and papers, a...
Página 64 - ... to be stationed, the chief shepherd goes before, and engages agistment, either of those proprietors who have more than sufficient for themselves, or of the corporations, who, in Spain, have usually extensive wastes and commons round their cities. It is to these claims of the Merino stock that some political writers have attributed the want of cultivation in the interior provinces of Spain.

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