Chap. IV", through S p A i ^99 
Sugar of Gandia. At Mentria m Granada they alfo 9; On the ^th, We triveiled to fix Leagues 
make a great deal of Sugar. About Valence^ Gandia^ diftant from Definos^ where we lodged the Night be- 
i£c, the Earth is always wrought, and never lies fallow fore. Here we faw the Caftle called ha Lamhra^ the 
or idle. They reckon five Raccoha’s or Crops in one Scat of the Kings of Granada. Within the Walls of 
Year. i. Of Mulbery-Leaves for Silk. 2. Wheat the Caftle live Abundance of People, which dare not 
and other European Grain. 3. Darji, i. e. Maiz or live in the City for D"bt, or other Caufes. There is 
Indian Yd ht2.i. 4. Grapes. 5. Olives, and 6. At Gan- a fair Palace begun by V. and yet unfiniftied | 
dia. Sugar Canes. After the Wheat is cut they pre- the Outfide of it is fquare, but it is round within, hav- 
fently fow the Indian Wheat. They complained that ing two Rows of Cloifters, one above another, round 
lately for a great many Years together, they had very about the Court. Adjoining to this is the ancient Pa- 
bad RaccoIta*s, for Want of Rain, which had almoft lace of the Kings of Granada y within there is all the 
ruined Spain. ' fame kind of Morefco Work, wrought in Mortar and 
8. On the 27th, We palTed Benegana, and lay at Stone, with Gold and Painting. The Cloifters are 
Chativer, fix Leagues and a half. Chather is an anci- fupporced by long flender Pillars. In this Palace is an 
ent Town of the Moors^ and w'as once Head of one oftagonal Chamber, vaulted at the Top with eight 
of their little Kingdoms. About a League from the Doors, one in every Side, If one ftand in one Angle, 
Town began a very remarkable Aqueducl made by and whifper to another who ftands in the Angle diame- 
them. It was juft over a River along the Side of a trically oppofite, the Voice is conveyed, as in the VGftf- 
Hill in moft Places, not above a yard or two under pering Place at Gloucefler : But if you ftand in an An- 
Ground, and had a great many Funnels like the Tops gle that is not diametrically oppofite, you hear nothing, 
of Chimnies, to give Vent, and Jet out of Water The Reafon of conveying the Voice, is the Vault above, 
when there ftiould be too much. The Tops of thefe and the Corners being ftreightned into a very fnarp 
Funnels were made of a red Clay and pebble Stones. Angle or Channel. In Granada are two great Market- 
The Water came almoft to the Top in ail of them. Places, one called Plajfa nova, the ocher de villa Ram- 
but run over in one. On the 28th, we pafied in Sight In the great Church are two Monuments, ono 
ol Monte fa, a Caftle belonging to the Knight of Mon- lot Ferdinand and Ifabclla, with this Infcription, Maho- 
tefa, that v;ear a red Crofs, Orternente, and lodged at wetica fella proSlratores Heretic^e pravicacia extinSiores 
Beehert, fix Leagues. On the 29th, near among Fernandus Aragonum iR Helifabetha Cajiillae, vir & uxor 
the Mountains, there is a very good Breed of Falcons, iinanimes, Catholici appellati marmoreo clauduntur hoc 
In the Plains near Alicant grows Abundance of Gramen himtdo. The other is of Philippus I, and of Joanna 
fpartum Plinii five Sportularum Ojficinarum. J. B. i. e. Daughter and Heir of Ferdinand and Ifahella, without 
Mat-weed, of which the Frails, wherein they put Raifins an Infcription. In the River Daro, that runs by Gra~ 
and other Fruits are made. This in Spain they call nada, they find Gold among the Sand. In the Moun- 
Spar, at Marfeilles, Auffe, The Women hereabout ga- tains of Sierra neveda, near Granada, are faid to be 
£her Abundance of this, and fteep it in Sea-water till divers Sorts of Minerals, which are not at all looked 
it be well foftened. Then they dry it, and carry it by after. NearM?/n 7 , at the Capo di Gatto, there is a Mine 
Sea to Marfeilles, where they fell it at eight Crowns the of Granates covered with the Sea. They are pointed as 
Milliere : Every Milliere confifts of ten Pachieres •, Amethyfts and Chryftal, but the beft come from Africa % 
every Pachiere of one hundred Manado^s or Handfuls, we faw that Day Monte facro, a Place within half a 
Of this they make Cables for Ships, Bafkets, iAc. In League of the Town, of great Devotion. In Cqftile, 
this Day’s Journey we faw a great many Fountains co- Granada, (Ac. the greater Cities have a Corregidore, and 
vcred with long Arches to hinder them from being the leffer an Alcayde, who adminifters Juftice, and are 
dried up. We ^•AItdiElda,Novelda,Afpe,ClaviUente,Al- appointed and fent by the King to govern the Towns, 
hitella, and lay at Orivola eleven Leagues. All over the Kingdom of Cafiile they eat Flefti upon 
On the 30th, We came to Murcia, four Leagues. Saturdays, and obferve only Fridays. On the 12th, we 
Near Orivola (which City is an epifcopai See) we obferved left Granada, and pafiing by Santa Feda, travelled to 
many Turpentine-trees, fome with Flower, and fome with hotta, eight Leagues. 13. At Lotta we were troubled 
ripe Berries. Near Elda they dig up a Sort of Selenite, with Soldiers, that came from the Frontiers of Portugal.^ 
which they put into Wine to clarity it. About a League to take up their Winter Quarters. There had been 
from began the Kingdom of two Leagues of this Party 2600, but this Summer at Alcantara they 
from Orivola, we were forced to give Money to avoid were reduced to 900, the reft being ftain, or dead of 
Searching. Murcia which gives Denomination to this Difeafes. We pafied this Day by Archidona, Lalameda, 
Kingdom, is a pitiful and defoJate Town. The Fifti- Laronda, and lay at Pedrera, ten Leagues. 
Market here is ftiut up in a Cage or Grate, as at Ge- 10. On the 14th, We pafifed by Ofiina, la Pobla,zrA 
ma, the People crowding about it, and thrufting in lay at Elazabel ten Leagues. This Country was the 
their Bafkets as there. October i. we travelled through beft we faw fince we came into Spain, the Land being' 
a miferable defolate Country to Miila, feven Leagues, for the moft Part well planted and cultivated. On the 
On the 2d, we paffed through Caravacca, where they 15th, We pafifed by Gandula, and arrived at Sevil, fe- 
drive a great Trade of making little CrofTes of Silver, ven Leagues. Between Gandula and there are A- 
Brafs, Wood, (Ac. After that Pilgrims, (Ac. have bought bundance of Olive-trees. Here we firtt faw the greater 
them, they carry them to the Caftle to touch them Sort of Olives, which are ufually eaten in England for 
by a famous Crofs, which according to their fabu- a Sallet, called the great Spanifh Olive j all that we had 
lous Legend, defeended miraculoufiy from Heaven, feen in Italy or in Spain before, being of the leffer 
which forfooth infufes a wonderful Virtue into them. Sort. Here is a brave Aquedu 61 ; of Brick, which con- 
We lay this Night at a lone Houfe, four Leagues off veys Water from Carmona, fix Leagues diftant : Un- 
Caravacca, having travelled in all ten Leagues. der the Arches there are Staladlites, as at the Aque- 
On the 3d, We pafs’d by Venta nova, and came to du6l of Pifa. The Galleons bring nothing Home from 
Iluefca, eight Leagues. At Huefca, we firft faw a yel- the WeA-Indies, but Plate ; the Merchant Ships are 
iowifti White-wine like Sack. The Kingdom of Gra- loaden with Leather, Cocoa, Sugar, Eana di Vigonna^ 
nada began about four Leagues before we came to Hu- &c. Of the Cocoa Nut, they make Chocolate, thus, firft 
ejea. The Town of Huefca belongs to the Duke of they toaft the Berries to get off the Hufk, then pound 
Alva. On the 4th, we paffed by and refted at the Kernels to Powder, and to every Milao, i.e. three 
Venta eight Leagues. We travelled to Guadix an epif- Pound and a half of Powder, they add and mino-Ie, 
copal See, and ancient Roman Colony. Upon the Gates two Pound of Sugar, twelve VanillA^, a little Pimen- 
we took Notice of this Infcription. Recepit Colonia Ac- tone or Guiny Vepptr, (which is ufed by the Spaniards, 
citana Gemelienfis Provincia caput prima omnium Hifpani- only) and a little Acchiote to give a Colour ; but thefe 
carum fidem, ChrRHJefu, rejediis idalis evangelizantibus "two laft may be omitted. They melt the Sugar, and 
fandiis Forcalo (A fociis. Anno Salutis 70. Pontificatus S. then mingle all well together, and work it up either 
Petri, 37. imperii Neronis 13. Urbs Accis patrona fuo in Rolls or Leaves. Sevil hath of late decayed very 
fandTtfimo. D.D. 1593. much, and doth continually Decay more and more, 
Homrati funt Amici iui Deus, the Trading Part being moft removed to Cales the 
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