SPAIN. 379 



1. s. d. 



Brought over 20 j j o 



g. After thefe crops are off, they 

 fow millet and clover ; 

 the former yields a pro- 

 dud of 280 

 jo. The clover is thus fed, to 



the value of about o 10 o 



II. And the year following it 

 is mown four times, va- 

 lue 500 



28 9,0 



Thefe are the crops of five years; fo that 

 the land yields more than two every year, 

 on an average; which fliews the prodigious 

 advantages to be made, without much 

 trouble or expence, by means of this fine 

 climate. Such lands as thefe they reckon 

 better than vineyards ; and what is a noble 

 advantage of the Spanish monarchy, is their 

 fyftem of taxation, having nothing of a 

 land-tax muitipliable on improvements, like 

 the taille in France, except in the t\vo 

 Caftiles. In all the other provinces, huf- 

 bandry and eftates in land are free, the re- 

 venue 



