i —_—. ll 
is very high, and of extent, and projects a number 
i t partsofithe province. = © 
In the years 1787 and 1788, the province contained 
416,922 inhabitants, consisting of 
ets fp « t'e't, ae 0 cin 69 2441 
Parisli priests ........+-.-- $41 
MNS oS ieee a ce sf oe 2,060 
oe een Se 1,748 
rs cre ene tae 3,724 
Widivocates so te te 305 
WEEE a's eG ct eb 2 8s oe 505 
ones gr eeterpar 1,446 
Gee crs at cip oo > 0 = ® 11,036 
From this scanty population, the traveller soften 
passes immense tracts without seeing a:settle- 
ment, a house, or a human being, and without percei- 
ving a tree, or a 
Travels in Portugal; and Laborde's View of Spain. 
‘w 
‘ EsrReMoz isa smal fried town of Portugal; in 
the provinee of Alentejo. town is i but 
has a large cheerful’ square in its centre. There isia 
castle on an eminence, an some outworks of no 
importance. There are \five religious houses in the 
town, and a sixth in the neighbourhood, an ital, 
and a casa de misericordia. This town belongs ‘to 
the corregimento of Evora, but being a:praga de ‘armas, 
it has.a governor. On the ‘side of the town towards 
Lisbon, the country is well cultivated, and:abounds'in © 
orange gardens and laurels, which continues as long 
as soil is lime, but, on ascending ‘the mountain, 
the soil consists of slaty: granite, all cultivation 
ceases. 
A good marble is found in the neighbourhood of the 
town. There is here a:small 
of the general's command, et nar pen 
relating to prisoners an 
iootaibenal the day, plans of Rounincunels : 
5 marc 
equa auuhanigptoh souteal in a comprehensive sense, 
the channel for the transmission of whatever requires 
the decision of a directing head, but is too much mat- 
ter of detail to be transacted by the eommander-in- 
‘The chef of the etat major receives from the 
in.chief » summary of his directions respecting 
the movement and arrangement of the troops, These 
spot of cultivated land. See Link's . 
moture of earthen. -it 
deserters, as - 
connected with the movements 
my no fewer than three ood which 
divided ig them the duties now ‘by the 
collective etat ‘major. The plan of has since 
of a'general of division and assistants, called Ants 
each division, the:plan of which is, on a smaller seale, 
‘the same as that of ‘the former. 
‘From the time ‘ot 
of ‘the'staff in each of 
ial orders are 
continues the ‘invarivble rule, even when 
of an yare at a considerable 
en to afford every ac- 
