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GEOLQGYOP LA. MANCHA. 145a specimen extant, to prove to the stranger what Spain might be inpoint ofcultivation.Their grounds are the best tilled of any, where anattempt is made.-It is the same in France.La Mancha possesses advantage over the plain of Ca5tille in soilandin e1imate.: the former shouldby" its appearance be inexhaustible, andthe latter iSlnore improved by its descent of level than by ils approximationto the South. The boundary of this tract the map mal'ksoutbetween the Tagus and Sierra Morena. Bow important in the study ofNature are the courses of rivers !It i8 consi~ered to he the case that springs rise hetween stmta. Aclose affinityis 50 traceahle in the courses ofrunning waters. The compositionof La Maucha i5 evidently alluvial. Herè seems to have beenadep05it of what, from othçr tracts, bas been washed away. 'La Manchaiswell adapted tothe introduction of water-carriage ; and the appropriationof this beneficent element, under judgement, to the uses ofman,would he ahles~ingevery where attainable, and would tUrn its agueishwâstesinto a paradise in8uch a climate. Bere at present produce musthe consumed on the spot whereit, grew; and no obvious mode ofdoingthis is traceable, save by the canker andmoth. Either the marketmust be. brought to the farmer, or the farmer to the market,for agriculture"tbetrueandonly basis of national prosperity, to fiourish. Butinpoint of land-cardage, Spain is probably not so much advanced at thisday, as England was in the leignof Edward the First. Torpor anddepression reign in the towns, and denudation over the country. If thecaUs of the traveller compel him toenter one of the former, for they are·usuallyapart froq:l the main road, 'such a,f it is, the 'Oenta~ being insulatedhouses, (a circumstancedictated by the.internal principles whichregula.te he.re, andall ~o much. the worse,) and he there inquires for apound of meat, he is directed to the butcher, who, when. the strangeru