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‘the equations into analogies. (2.) By ex- 
prefling both fides as fraétions, as in the 
Analyfis: and that, as eafy and plain ex- 
amples were given, fo, for complex cafes, 
particular reference was made to De 
Moivre and Dod{on, and perhaps to other 
authors. It fhould alfovhave been ftated, 
when Mr. LEsLIE announced to Mr. 
PLAYFalrr the’ difcovery of 47s method 
of refolving indeterminate equations, that 
reference was immediately made by a 
gentleman prefent, to the Analyfis, r9th 
propofition ; True, that’s true, fays Mr. 
PuLayFarr, recollecting himfelf; but 
Mr. LEsuieE rejoining, he never faw the 
book! nothing more was then faid on 
the Analyfis. i 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazzue. 

che ngs 
; NDERST ANDING from your no- 
tice in laft Month’s Magazine, that 
it is your intention to prefent your readers 
with periodical accounts of the State of 
Literature, &c. in Spain; and conceiving 
that any communication relative to. the 
manners of that country, cannot fail of 
_ proving interefting and acceptable, I am 
induced to tranfmit you the following ex- 
tracts from ** Laugle’s Travels in Spain*,”’ 
of which a fifth edition has very lately 
appeared in Paris, in 270 pages octavo, 
embellifhed with feveral engravings, &c. 
“Speaking of the profound homage and 
veneration which the Spaniards are accutf- 
tomed to pay to the Virgin Mary, the in- 
enious author obferves : 
“Not a fingle {treet or houfe is to be 
found in all Madrid, which is not deco- 
rated with a portrait or buft of the Blefled 
Virgin. Ineredible is the annual con- 
fumption of flowers made ufe of in Spain 
for crowning the Virgin’s image; incre- 
dible the number of hands which are con- 
ftantly employed trom morning till night 
in drefling her caps, turning her petti- 
coats, and embroidering her ruffles, Every 
Spaniard regards the Virgin in the light 
of his friend, his confidante, his mifirets,. 
whofe whole attention is.directed to him- 
felf,,and. who is perpetually watching 
ever hisshappinefs... Hence. the name of 
Mary hangs inceffantly upon his lips, 
mixes in all his compliments, and forms 
a part-of all his wishes. In f{peaking, in 
“writing, his.appeal is always to the Vir- 
gin, who is the guarantee of all his pro- 
* The firft-edition of this work, publithed 
in 1785, was, in purfuance of a parliamentary 
decree, publickly burnt in Paris by ths hands 
of the common hangman. 
Anecdotes relative to Spain, 
mifes ; the witnefs of all his tranfactiongs 
It is in the name of the holy Blefled Virgin; 
that the ladies intrigue with’ their gale 
lants, write billets-doux, fend their por 
traits, and appoint no&turnal aflignations, 
~The Spanifh wool’is univerfally aec- . 
.Enowledged to be incomparably fwperior 
‘oany in Europe.- But this wool is not 
of equal quality in every province of ‘the 
kingdom; there are various forts, “which 
are diftinguifhed by the names of the dif 
ferent manufaCtories. The firft im vépute 
is that known by the denomination of the 
Segowies Léoneéfes ; to this clafs belongs the 
wool which bears the narne of [’Infantado 
de T Afturie, that of the Trois Conwents de 
Lf’ Efcurial, of Don Bernardin Sanchez, and 
of Don Fofeph de Vittoria. On an average, 
the Spaniards vend annually about 4000 
arobes of wool, each arobe weighing 25 
pounds. ea 
Next to theLoné/é, the Segovian, ftands 
in higheft repute. ‘This is not quite fo 
fine as the former, and bears a variety of 
names, according to the diftri&ts and ma- 
nufactories where it is prepared. The fineft 
of this fort is called les Cavelieres. The 
provinces which produce the beft and fu- 
perior forttof wool are, Arragon and Va- 
lencia, Upper and Lower Andalufia, Caf- 
tile and Navarre. It is a common preju- 
dice, that the finenefs and incomparable 
whitenefs of the Spanifh wool are the re- 
fult of the climate; but this is an abfo- 
lute error; the true caufe of the perfection 
of the Spanifh wool is to be found in the 
manner in which the Spaniards rear their 
fheep. The other nations of Europe have 
cultivated all the arts and’ fciences with 
fuccefs, except the art of rearing fheep=-- 
the Spaniards, on the contrary, haveneg- 
lected almolt every branch of feience ex- 
cept this. art. In Spain are fill to be 
found veftiges of that fimple, ~paftoral 
life, which, in the earlier ages of the 
world, was deemed fo honourable, and 
which rendered thofe who: devoted them- 
felves to the rearing of fheep, fo. fuperla- 
tively happy. ~ ee 
The Spaniards pay little or no’regard 
to the wife precept of Mofes; to refrain 
from burying their dead for the fpace of 
three days. In Madrid, Valladolid, Sa- 
lamanca, and, indeed, in almoft \every 
part of Spain, it is dangerous: to indulge 
too much a natural propenfity to long 
fleep'; 2 perfon, who overtfleeps “his cuf- 
tomary hour, incurs the rifque of being 
interred alive. Among other inftances of 
culpable precipitation in this refpeét, *in- 
deed it juftly deferves the’ nameof “homi- 
cide, the fate of a young, amiable, and 
iat - uncommonly 
