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On Spanish Peasantry, their improved Lime- Kilns : and 

 economical Cooking Stoves. By Anthony Morris Esq. 



Read January 8th. 1816. 



Madrid, October 15, 1815. 

 My dear Sir, 



In my journey from Cadiz to Madrid, I availed myself 



1 *5E T c rr tences admitt ^> » d - & from 



1 for he (0 " WhK ? y ° U meet with nothi "S b "t **■ 

 0) for the purpose of inquiring | nto the ,4 its of the 



Agncultural and labouring classes, always to me, the most 

 mterest.ng portmn of every community: I found the en 

 durance of every convenience of life not onIy wk , ™ 

 fence, but mth content, and cheerfulness, a ge ier 

 ractenstic trait of the SmnJcK general cna- 



uniform habits o £ SoTt 't'mnl "**' ^^ ^ 



in the department of ru a civH 7- ET™" ' ^ 

 ti , a , r , . ' dI > C1V]1 > an « domestic economy 



^1 • , ' *»ater, is better understnnrl 



or at least . better applied, than in the United StaS S 

 former, m the country, in the burning of lime and h thS 

 cmes mall culinary operations; the° latter, i'nu 1 " 

 he.r c ,t,es wtth water, which is generally from spri "s f 

 the,r Sierra's or ranges of mountains; and which is never 



i tea r of pe t ; fect - r einns ^y ^^"i 



25S?i.Stw5t of collectin » a,ld co - 



& > enaea\om to procure you a Dartirnlar 



account. In the burning of lime, they use oiSSl 

 shrub, brush-wood, and weeds, with which the vidn 

 of the Kilns supplies them; none are thicker th } 



-allest linger, very fe W beyond thl'mickS o^ge- 



