SPAIN. 1751. u 



roots, and all forts of fruits, are expofed for 

 fale, winter and fummer. 



The Spaniards make ropes and cables, for 

 (hips and other ufes, of a certain grafs which 

 they call Sparto. This is the Stipa tenaciffima, 

 Linn, or Spartum herba Plinii, Cluf. Hilt. 2. 

 p. 220. which is faid to grow in . wet places f . 

 The ropes they make of it are fo durable, 

 that they need not be tarred ; but the Spa- 

 niards dry and fpin it without preparation, 

 contrary to what we are ufed to do with our 

 hemp. This might, perhaps, furnifh hints to 

 us to look out for fome of our own wild 

 graffes in order to employ them in the fame 

 manner, and we might make a beginning with 

 the Elymus arenarius. The Spanifh mats which 

 are brought to Sweden are made of the fame 

 Sparta, 



Olive trees (Oka Europaa) and white 

 poplars (Populus alba) are planted on both 

 fides the ramparts, and are watered by Tub- 

 terraneous pipes. Thus the city has the ad- 



f Linnasa, in his Species Plantarnzn, and Loefling in his 

 Journey through Spain fay it grows on the Tandy hills of 



vantage 



