376 TRAVELS THROUGH 

 they cannot water a good part of their 

 grounds. As far as the watered tracts reach 

 there, you fee good agriculture, even upon 

 the neighbouring dry lands ; but when no 

 water is to be gained, the others are neg- 

 lected. This is a fre(h and very ftrong in- 

 /lance of the neceffity of great herds of cattle 

 for carrying on agriculture in any country. 

 The farmers and peafants, my interpreter 

 queftioned upon this head, did not feem to 

 have any idea of this fort ; but there is, ne- 

 verthelefs, great reafon to think that this is 

 the true reafon of their being fo backward in 

 all matters where meadows could not be 

 had. 



The 1 9th, I reached Segorla, the country 

 all very fine, fertile, and rich -, and, in ge- 

 neral, very highly cultivated, under vines, 

 olives, corn, meadows, &c. All the flats, 

 and even the fides of fome hills, are watered 

 with care, and produce very rich crops : 

 this is one of the fineft parts of Spain. From 

 Segorla to Valencia, where I got the next 

 day, the whole is one continued garden for 

 culture, induftry, and luxuriant productions. 

 It is mofl of it inclofed, either in vineyards, 

 olives, mulberry plantations, corn fields, 



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