1875.] 



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I deem the foUowiug to be the most reliable one relative'to any late 

 year preceding the period of i-eoent progress: 



DIVISIONS OP LA-ND IN 1857. 



Land sown in grain, potatoes, beans and peas, roots, vege- 

 tables, commercial crops, fallow land, grass land under 

 rotation, chestnut groves, orchards and gardens 



Vineyards 



Olive grounds 



Meadows and pastures 



Mountainous lands 



Sites, mines and quarries 



32,210,071 



2,906,788 



3,122,780 



16,930,028 



10,832,780 



3,586,247 



Total productive land . 



Forests 



Barren and waste ; also lakes, rivers, roads, etc. 



68,584,589 



6,885,600 

 49,269,011 



Grand total 134,739,200 



Comparing the two accounts, so far as their different classifications 

 will enable a comparison to be made, we have the following results: 



Division op Land. 



Cultivated and fallow 



Forests. 



Copses 



Mountains 



Rivers 



Sites, etc 



Meadows and pastures. 

 Barren, waste, etc 



Total 



1803. 

 Spain Pkopeb. 



ACRES. 



} 



37,637,100 

 10,127,800 



8,603,330 



I 74,737,780 



131,084,900 



1857. 

 Spain and the Isles. 



ACRES. 



Gain or Loss. 



ACRKS. 



37,339,584 

 6,: 85,600' 



Inc. in 



G. 9,613,484 

 Loss. 



Unchanged 



16,936,028 Unchanged. 

 49,269,011 Loss. 



124,739,2001 



Beyond the essential point that nearly ten million of acres were added 

 to the cultivated lands, it can only be stated roughly that the forest 

 lands of Spain, which, so far as concerns the period under review, were 

 never extensive, slightly diminished ; the pasture lands (properly speak- 

 ing, there were few or no meadows in Spain), remained unchanged, 

 and the common and waste lands diminished, by being brought partly 

 under cultivation. 



Irkigation. 



Of the above mentioned 37,339,584 acres of cultivated land, 3,857,648 

 acres were irrigated as follows: 



Divisions of Ikkiqated Land. 



Arable land . . . 

 Vineyards . . . . 

 Olive grounds 

 Other 



Total 



Fanegadas, 

 Each of 1.60 A.cres, 



1,370,090 



67,374 



74,618 



373,970 



1,786,035 



A CKES. 



2,193,144 



107,755 

 119,889 

 438,360 



2,857,648 



