journey

GIBRALTAR TO MALAGA.
lions; their women grind the corn in
hand-mills, and fpin the thread, with
which they knit their calcetas
the articles of linen and cloaths they
leceive of th.e íhopkeepers in the
towns, exchanged for wine, oil, wfreat
and fruits; by this primitive method
of trading, they feldom touch money,
and therein, in my opinión, confífts
their greateft happinefs; the puré air
they breathe, conftant exercife, and
the fteepneís of their hills, renders
their bodies alert, healthy, and robuft,
and their minds chearful and free
from that univerfal langour which
opprcfTes the Spaniards in the hot
yaks below,
f h"\ Calcetas are coarfe knit thread ílockings
without feet, nniverfal'.y worn by the country-
peqple in Spain.
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