£92 
antient mannef,’before the ufe of gun- 
powder ; but which, from the peculiar 
quality of the ftone, the cryneis and pu- 
rity of the air, or other caufe unknown, 
have a very modetn appearance. They 
are perfeétly entire, and lofty, with fquare 
towers at fhort intervals ; the whole 
crowned with a parapet and battlements, 
ornamented with much ingenuity and la- 
bour. 
The town is pleafantly fituated ona de- 
clivity, floping eaftwardly toa fimall river, 
in the midit of a fertile and well culti- 
vated vale; the mountains now iinking 
down on each hand and a broad plain 
opening up which extends foutherly to the 
banks of the Ebro. The country round 
Tatalla abounds in coin, wine, and oil. 
As it poffefies alfo honey, milk only was 
wanting to render ic alittle Canaan. 
The only obje@ of curiofity within the 
town, which on the whole is neat, is ‘the 
altar-piece of the principal church, a 
group of {culpture deiervedly admired. 
There had been a bull-featt in the town 
fome days before our arrival, when one 
of the poor animals, enraged by irritation 
and torture, had fprung over the fence 
which feparates the arena from the amphi- 
theatre, and making his way amoggit the 
feats, had miferabiy mangled three men 
and a woman befure he was fecured and 
difpatched. This accident was not, how- 
éver, mentioned to us as any thing very 
extraordinary. 
Next morning, at four o'clock, we pur- 
fued our jouracy, over a vait open plain, 
principally in corn land, and without 
trees, for five leagues to Ol:te, once a 
good'town, but now much decayed. 
The antient kings of Navarre had here 
a palace, of which confiderable portions 
fill exift. It was confiruéted on, or ra- 
ther in the room of, a part of the walls of 
the town, having long hails where the 
curtai#, as it may be called, extended, and 
{mali chambers if the towns. 
Such cf the pinnacles and®towrs as re- 
main, frew that they have been ornament- 
ed with foltage and cther op-n wo:k, in 
the Gothic manner, with great elegance ; 
and in the fame way (but with mere deli- 
cacy) with the walls of Tafalla. 
From Olite, we proceeded three leagues 
to Caparoio, the cultivated lands ending 
a fhort way irom Ojite, and the remainder 
of thecourle lyi g over a bare.cpen vact 
7ithout inhabi:ants, to that place, fiiu- 
ated on the fouth bank of the Aragon, 
before mentioned ; on one of the moit 
barren rugeed {pets that can be conceived. 
Before we came to the river, were 
aftenifhed to enter a plautationof Olives, 
3. 
we 
Trip fram Pamplona to Numantia; &c. in Spain. [Deé. 1, 
which- extends for a confiderable way, up 
and down that bank. : 
Here is a good ftone bridge of feven 
arches, part of which was carried away 
at the time of the defiruétion of San- 
guefla. - 
On leaving Capzerofo, we began a long 
ficep alcent leading intoa traét of country 
called La Bardena, extending from north= 
eait, to fouth-welt, above twenty miles. 
It is a high and uneven plain, without 
water, houle,; or indication of human 
creature, far as the eye can reach, in every 
direction. The elevations with which it 
is over{pread are, however, covered with 
rofemary, lavender, hyiop, thyme, and 
other hardy fhrubs, which fil the air with 
fragrance. In this dicary tract, where 
few travellers are feen, the attention is 
roufed occaionally; by a finall and imple 
wooden cro!s, fixed by the way fide, bear- 
ing a rude infeription, telling that there 
dicd juch a one, on fuch aday (Aqui mu- 
rio, Ge.) ; 
B:fore we le't the Bardena, we had 2 
noble proipeét of the Ebro, winding mag- 
nificently through its vaft plain. On com- 
ing down from the high grounds, our 
road divided into two branches; one lead- 
ing to the left, by Tudela, the birth place 
oi the famous Jew traveller, of the m:ddie 
ages, called Benjamin Tudelenfis, to Sa- 
ragcila ; and the other which we followed, 
ftanding right acrofs the plain, to the 
Ebro: 
This pizin is about two milesin breadth, 
and as ilat as the furiace of a lake. Some 
parts of it are cultivated and watered by’ 
drains from the river; but in general, it 
is Overgrown with broom, recds, rufhes, 
and @ gieit abundance of the tamarife. 
— ’ ,. 
Yo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
MONG the ruined monafteries it 
has occahonally been my lot to vifit 
m the neighbourhood of Oxford, is the: 
church of Cogges ; once an alien priory of 
black monks belonging to the Abbey of 
Fefcamp, in Normandy, fituated rather 
better than a mile on this fide Witney. 
I have enceavoured to gather every parti- 
cular I pofhioly could, relating to its hif- 
tory, and fubmit my ebizrvations, with- 
cut farther apology, to the perafal of your 
readers. 
Cogges was an old Teutonic word for a 
fhip ; and was a name given a century or 
two ago to the fall beats upen the Oufe — 
aud Humber. Hence, probably, the Eng= =~ 
lith Cock-beat. In the prefent cafe, how- — 
ever, I con-eive Cocces to have re- © 
ceived its name from the noife which © 
might 
