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Apelles, &e, had arr ived ;. when he ob- 
-ferves thele fame inhabitants crofling in 
crowds the high roads on which thefe mo- 
numents were to pafs, hail them with 
demonftrations of the greateft joy to the 
very gates of the city of Rome, for which 
thele days were days of feltival and of fo- 
Jemn rejoicings. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR; 
S my curfory Remarks on the coun- 
try lying between Bayonne in France, 
and St Sebafltan and Pamplona in Spain, 
have been allowed a place in your valuable 
mifcellany, I am encouraged to continue 
my communications in the fame manner, 
proceeding from Pamplona, to vifit the re- 
mains, or at leaft the fire, of the renowned 
Numentia, in the mountains of old Caittille, 
and thence, by Saragoffa, Lerida, &c. to 
Madrid. Iam, Sir, &c. 
MONANDER, 
Trip from Pamplona to 
TRIP from PAMPLONA fo NUMANTIA, 
LERIDA, Gc. to MADRID. 
PAMPLONA, the capital of the 
kingdom, as it is called, of Spanifh 
Navarre, is fituated on 4 gentle eminence 
on the fouth fide of the river Arga, to- 
wards the middle of a plain or valley, 
three leagues in length, from eaft to weit, 
and one Jeague in breadth, frem north to 
fouth ; producing corn in abundance, 
with fome wine, but very deltitute of 
wood, 
The town is of moderate fize, but well 
peovled; the inhabitanis being reckoned 
about twelve thoulfand. 
The ftreets are in genera] fraight, fuf- 
ficiently wide, and well paved. Former- 
ly Pamplona and Madrid had the charac- 
ter of being two of the dirtieft towns in 
Spain: now, however, they are remarked 
fur the oppofite quality. 
This place being of importance, as a 
frontier as well as a cap.tal, it has been 
fortified with regular works, wherever the 
nature of the ground would admit this to 
be executed. The north fide, which is 
built along an elevation, eighty or an 
hundred feet above the river, is defended 
only by an ancient wall, with a few fhal- 
low baitions, where room’ could be found 
for them. 
On the eaft and fouth fides, the works 
are more modern and regular, and the welt 
fide is covered by 3 pentagonal citadel, 
confidered to be of great ftrength in intel 
as well as by its fituation, Some, 3 ll 
ever, are of opinion, it is comms sanded by 
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the hills to the northward, diftant about 
half a league. 
This citadel, and fome other works ad- 
ditional to the ancient fortifications of the 
place, were conftructed by Philip IT, to- 
wards the end of the fixteenth century. 
The citadel is-ufed, not only as a gar. 
rifon, but as a prifon, for ftate criminals, 
and for thofe who, on the decline of the - 
temporal authority of the Inquifition in 
Spain, were withdrawn from its fangs, 
and fhut up, by royal mandate, from all 
intercourfe with the world. 
The public buildings of Pamplona con- 
tain little that deferves notice. 
The cathedral, a geod Gothic edifice, 
1s beginning to decay, and a new one has 
been begun ; of which the frontilpiece, com- 
pofed of a portico with Greek columns, 
is executed. The plan was to demolifh 
by degrees the old fabric, and to rebuild 
the whole in the Greek ftyle: but the 
operation feems to proceed flowly. 
The number of parifh churches and 
convents is confiderable. In that of the 
Capuchins, on the north fide of the town, 
and about half a mile off, is a monument 
erected to the memory of the Count de 
Gages, who had been viceroy of Navarre. 
This gentleman was a native of Savoy; 
but entering the Spanifh fervice, highly 
diftinguifhed himfelf in the wars of Italy, 
in 1748, for the fucceffion to the crown of 
Naples, fo admirably defcribed in the Latin 
hiftory of Bozamici of Tulcany. M. de 
Gages laboured inceffantly, during his ad- 
miniliration in Navarre, to introduce 2. 
regular and effective police: he paved and 
lighted the fireets of Pamplona and other 
towns within the diftri€t; he confiructed 
aqueducts and bridges, he opened roads 
and inns, and died univerfatly lamented. 
One fingulari'y in Pamplona is, that 
the chapter of the cathedral is compofed 
of Canons-regular of the order cf St. 
Auguttine ; being the only chapter in 
Soain which had not been fecularized. 
Numantia, &c. in Spain. 
The canons are literally Augufine 
friars, and live in community in the 
monafte:y adjoining the ca:hedral. The 
bifhop, however, is not required to be a 
regular ecclefiaftic. 
Pamplona is very ancient. Strabo. 
mentions it under the name of Pompelony 
or Pompeiopolis, the city of Pompey. 
From this circumftance, that celebrated 
Roman is believed to have been, not pro- 
bably the founder, but the reftorer of the 
place. It is to be noticed, that in the 
Rafque language, which extends thus far, 
Painplona i$ Not called by its proper ss 
yet 
