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160 'l'RAVELS IN EUROPE.thousand cavalry would be the lnost efiçient.But the colouies, un.­fnrtunately,. forbid any powerfulor permanent. establishment of thiskind at hOIne~ E\'ery soldier who ehQoses to remain in America, whenhis regÏlnellt .J;e.tutns toEurope, has permissiot). to do.so.: ;and ;as a .c.av.alryman 18 cqmparatively a prince there, thisbecOID,eS a IDost seriousdeduction from nationaldefence.Agla.nceot t4e eye across the Spa~nish .part pf the peninsula, must carry ins:tantat).~ous.convic;tion .bo~yessentialthe maintenance of a powerfularmo~ this}~itll9eyery contingency ofavicinating 'ya.r,J~j!~e+lle~$;"ndA;heirpasses,pr9;\;TililCeS !lp lhc Ebro, .J.hat;river, theplainsQf Castille and LaMancha,and tl;u~.,Sierra Morena,. are. each agreat military featqre;nearly eachrequires an applicatipnof a distinctive nature, and pecqliarto itself, but subject to one great. regulating principJe ; and this i5, thethrowingthe prep(mderance into the ca.valry; A combinati(>tlpfa'te~ypeculiarkind is d.emancled by this cOiUntry 1 AII))osth;t4e'Yorst,s:Ys.te~that can he actecl upon is .. preferable~ ipmilitaJfY mal~fs, aiCtÏ,llgwithout any; thalis to say, following the \1s\1a) proces$ of leavingeverything to the day and the chapterof.accidepts. Much iI))}porta.lltlnat7ter no.douht thus succeeds~ but even tl1at cannotnlal\e; it }~}good plan.Can ligueras Qe considered as ~nnexed to auy thing systelPatic ?-AhoUoW' policy strilves the mimI at ever;}' tllfQ.CARlfON.I\ ..;-l'J1Îs, country becomes intere~tingto theiuquisitive inantiquities. Carmona in the .present day lS nea.rly as tile Romalls:1eft it,TheÏr architecturewaspeculiar J;l1Ore for: sollditythan.bea.pty~TheYseem indeed to have hui] t pot merely for.posterity, (ip. tl1;el1' d()~e~,~içarchitecture,) but for eternity.lt18 veryelilsy to .aqquirep.l'qonv,ey. anideaofthis species of the art. lt is,extrao1'dinavy·;whatln;ode,ofçalcl)­làtion sbould .haveinduce.d.thern l.1'niversally (a§ h;flfe.) te~e~!q'Y()!l their