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many miles in Caftile would yield. But, 

 faid I, could not fainfoine, for inftance, be 

 fown on them ? Are they too dry to yield 

 that plant ? Why, replied he, I do not 

 know but fainfo'ine might grow there, but 

 it would never anfwer j oh ! Sir, they are 

 very defolate. From this account I was 

 convinced that thefe boundlefs waftes of 

 Caftile might all be brought eafily into cul- 

 ture j for, where fuch ajgrafs as fainfoine is 

 to be cultivated, I mould apprehend that 

 the great want would be got over, which is 

 to be able to fupport cattle for draught and 

 profit j wherever cattle can be fupport- 

 ed, there certainly the land need not be 

 wafte ; but the Spaniards have not people 

 for foch undertakings. Catalonia and Va- 

 lencia (and part of Murcia,' they fay) are rich 

 and well peopled $ but as to moft of the 

 other provinces, they are thinner of people 

 than any other country in the fouth of 

 Europe, not, I am told, excepting even 

 Turkey. 



The i 8th, I with difficulty got to Teruel, 



pafling through a very fine country, but not 



all cultivated. They are not fpirited at all in 



their husbandry even in this province, where 



B b 4 they 



