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84, TRAVELS IN EUROPE.is calculation aJone, and not speculation~whieh can appretiat~ the valu~of these undertakings. The calcuJation must be founded upon thecapital sunk, and the remote points brought into connection. The Ebrorises on the verge of Asturia. Ta connec.t by artifieial navigatiqn theBay of Biscay with the Mediterranean, by the collateral aid of thisriver,which is very feasibJe, would be a truly national enterprise, openingvast maga~ines, of whieh the Peninsula would he the entreptt.Sucban undertaking is physieally far more feasible on this side of the P'yre~nees than on the other. But the tardines,&ja~dco$tlin~ssof the works,and want of combination andsy.s~ll1i~jthe projection, will long baffleany efforts 'of this kind. As to expenditure, it appears as if thosewho had the laying out of the money thought that the more t11ey threwaway of it, the more effectua]]y they performed their business.rrhereis every reason to suppose that Spain aboullds in mineraI riches: water....carriage should, even in that respect, be a rational speiculation; for,until it be obtained, sneh ponderous wealth is possessed to very littlepurpose.Itinerary.-LoNJARBS, LA l\rfVCLA, Venta de la ROMERIA, DAROUCA,U INOJOSA, GUADALAXARA, JJJeala de Hl?HARES, 1VIADRIT.The broad bed of the Ebro, with its clear ,vaters and pure banks ofgrave], the majestie aspens whieh grow on its borders and impend overits bed, and the antiquated towers of Saragossa, present a very pietu.l'esque effeet ta the eye. But this grati(ying view is on the entrance(by the Pyrenee), not the departure, side.From Saragossa and the Ebro, the country rises into the summit leve!of the PeninsuJa (to localize which, take Sierra~lolina).than thissummit tract, the great plain of Castille, a more uninteresting one cauhardIy he conceived. Here, on the descent ofit, the rivers at this season