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~ADRI T, ETC., 1~1that "Agui se 'Vende cebo de Flandes " or " de Olanda." --" Here is soldFlemish or Dutch suet." 80 that the merchant's and tradesman'sprofit, and sea and land carriage expenses, are imposed upon an (économicarticle, which the hills within view of Madrit ar~ competent to theproduction of! FinaUy: for Spain to thrive, she should reduce her sheepestablishment within due limifs.rraking leave of the mountainous tract, D'IOre particularly Segovia,the head-quarters of the artillery, for which service there appears adifficulty of obtaining men sufficiently ta11, (for the standard here wouldhe qy no means considered adequate any where else in Europe,) and ofits elegant Al Kasr, now appropriated to the use of a military academy,to which it is not characteristically or otherwise adapted; Madritis to' he taken in theroute for the south of Spain, whitheI: nowboth time and season imperatively calI.Madrit, December 1784~-This city is best visited in summer, anda mountain excursion will be the most gratifying part of the visitethat season here the nights are delightful, beyond any idea that can beformed in other climates, and the heats of day are not more than whata traveller makes up bis mind to, when he enters these latitudes.The main desiderata of Madrit are fuel and water; rather necessaryingredients in human œconomics, in a situation so very subject to theinconvenient ,extrem,es 'and transitions of heat and cold. A handsomebridge shciuld indi6ate a river; but it requires some activity of investigation,even with this clue, to discover if. " lts dimensions to one ofthick sight areinvisible." A,wit (for th~se pests of societyexist (fverywhere) has told us, in epigraql, that one day p.:lissing the Manzanares,on casting his eyes up its bed, he found an ass had drunk it dry! Ifwater be not, however, ,good wine is, found,which is therefore done.Atby crossing this bridge;This is only noticeable as illustrative of theR