£06 
the fe riahieanaua; is appropriated to. 
yaising vegetables. This % on the nar- 
row road Jeading té the continent, and 
lait about half a mile, in the maidist of 
which is the pubic carriave-road, and on 
each side a foot-path, having white mar- 
bie benches: this 1s, called the Almeida, 
znd is the usual promenade in the even-. 
bugs, particulariy on Sundays. . Ft is 
ctclightfully situated for commandi ing 
‘he harbour and adjacent towns, and thé 
skirts of the bold shore which here 
hounds the Atlantic; where the surge 
Breaks with tremendous violence, dety- 
aug the approach of boats over the nu- 
merous sunsen rocks and shoals. 
fa the gardens are cauliflowers, lettu- 
ces, pease, &c. in the highest perfec- 
tion; we have celery and ¢ asparagus, bat 
not very good; the former is small, and 
the latter tall and bitter. The soil. is 
maturally sandy, and is watered by an 
Ingemlous contrivance. A well is dug to 
twenty or more feet, and brackish water 
is brought to the surface by. means of a 
largé wheel having several rims or 
grooves; around it are. attached ropes, 
with buckets suspended from them; as 
the wheel revolves, one rope anda bucket 
descends while another is wound up, 
which empties itself into a reservoir, and 
then again descends: thus constantly 
supplying @ quantity of water, with no 
ether labour than tbat of an ass or a bul- 
Fock to turn the machine. 
' The scene is always more or less lively 
here, this road being the only one to and 
from Cadize We see the countrymen, 
and their loaded mules and asses in: 
droves smoking their segars, and singing 
discordantly with the jingling of the 
animals’ bells ‘Long live Ferdinand 
Wilth 
beautiful Andalusian horse, with flowing 
mane ‘* pawing the ground, impatient of 
his course ;”’ and the stately coach, drawn 
by four mules not more elegantly capari- 
soned than 2 common hackney-coach in 
the streets of London. 
There seems not to have been any 
improvement in the construction of car- 
riages in Spain, since their first inven 
tion; they have no pretension to neat- 
ness or elegance, but are heavily and 
elumsily built, and badly ornamented. 
Fhe coachman, the footman, and ie 
hvertes; the mules, their bells, and th 
harness; are all subjects of ante 
attraction. In this-ease, as in most 
_ others in Spain, the want of cleanliness 
and neatness is too visible; we see a 
laged livery in tatters, the footman stuck 
“Remarks on the Townley Statues. 
.” The Spanish don, mounted on his . 
[Gct. ¥, 
up behind the carriage’ with his dirty 
locks tiowing in no very graceful elegance 
ow his shoulders, with or without a neck- 
cloth; or, if he have one, perhaps it ne- 
ver was at the laundress’s ! 
The only good appendage to a carriage 
are the mules; they are generally heau- 
tiful animals, frony fourteen to fifteen 
hands and half high, very tractable and 
swilt. Those used in post-coaches have 
a number of small bells fastened to the 
collar; their jingling causes the mile to 
travel with more cheerfulness; and are 
indispensable when in the woods and the 
almost impenetrable parts of the coun- 
try, as a warning of their approach. | 
The driver of a post-coach sits so low 
in front as to place his legs between the 
hinder ones of the mules; he commonly 
guides them with reins ‘made of long 
grass into a rope; sametimes he is’ seen 
trotting on foot by the side of the mules, 
but this is apace the roads seldom admit 
them to go. 
Besides the heavy past-coaeh; scarcely 
more commodious than our travelling 
taxed carts, (except from their form) 
here is a smaller vehicle called a Calesse, 
sometiing lixe an old-fashioned one- horse 
ehair; it will contain two persons, is 
drawn by one mule, and the driver or 
owner always accompanies it sitting on 
one of the arms, while he fogs the mule, 
and now and then overturns the ma- 
chine. 
Post-houses — are established on the 
great roads, as they are termed ; those 
are under the controul of the government ; 
aregular table is formed of the expence 
per league to prevent impositions; but to 
have any thing like comfort when travel- 
Hing, it 1s necessary not only to take beds 
and bedding, but even provisions and 
wine, otherwise it 1s a chance if you meet. 
with a mattress to recline on, and a few 
eggs and gvat’s milk for refreshment. 
Se 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
REMARKS on the TOWNLEY STATUES, by 
the REV. THOMAS DUDLEY oes 
M.A. F,A,S. 
(Third Room. ) - 
N old Faun struggling 
with a Nymph. An old 
No. 1. 
ee ig an error in iconalogy. Winck- 
elmann (Art. ti. 268, ed. Amstelod, } 
classes the Fauns among the Juvenzle 
Gods, whose ff figures are in a state of ripe 
manly youth, with«an air of simplicity 
and innocence ; ‘the Greeks representing 
the rustic deities upon ideas similar to 
these which influenced Morland in his. 
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