r8 OS BECK'S VOYAGE, 



They feldom teach any other than their 

 own language ; and it is laid, that, befides the 

 Jcfuits, there are but few who underftand La- 

 tin, and thofe make ufe of a particular pro- 

 nunciation ; thus, for mibi they fay micki. The 

 Hebrew language and the jews are equally in 

 difgrace with the Spaniards, and therefore are 

 both excluded from the colleges. 



The Spanifh poetry is greatly eftecmed, par- 

 ticularly the works of guevedo are praifed be- 

 yond meafure ; comedies in verfe are frequent- 

 ly printed and acted, and the reading of them 

 is the principal amufement of many people. 

 The ftate of the fciences in Spain is beft re- 

 prefented by the learned Spanifh Benedictine 

 friar Gcronimo Fcjoo> in his Cartas Eruditas, 

 or Learned Letters, 1750, Tom. III. carta 

 xxxi. p. 384. k 



Here are fcveral bookfellers fhops, in 

 which may be procured Spanifh books on re- 

 ligion, printed on a wretched paper, bound m 

 foft pafteboard, with leathern (traps inflead of 



k In the original is a long quotation from Fejoo's book, 

 which the tranflator does not think interefting to an Englifli 

 reader. 



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