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high-road is not fo grand. Travelling is much 

 more inconvenient and expenfive here than in 

 Sweden, on account of the delays and bad ac- 

 commodation. Travellers always carry fire- 

 arms and piitols with them, and feem as if 

 they were marching to a campaign ; for they 

 have reafon to be afraid of robbers, which, 

 though lefs frequent farther in the kingdom, 

 are often met with in Andalufia ; whence the 

 Spanifh proverb, 



De el Andahtz guar da tu capuz ; 



Al Andaluz haze la cruz : 



Al Sevillano con una y otra mano : 



Al Corduves con manos y -pies. 

 Take care of thy head before an Andalufian, 

 and fign thyfelf with a crofs ; before a Seviliau 

 crofs thyfelf with both hands ; and before a 

 Cordubian with hands and feet. 



I found neither animals of prey nor 

 fnakes ; but I met a perfon having a long 

 lizard, exceeding a foot in length, of green, 

 yellow, and other colours, on a firing. It was 

 very fpiteful, and when it was let down upon 

 the ground, it opened its mouth at all who 

 palled by it, especially if a (tick was held near 



