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162 TRAVELS IN EUROPE.tirne. Can Nature produce two animaIs more opposite than the Romanand his successorhere, the Arabie conquerorP From houses small indimension, but fitted up with the very consum,mation of taste and elegancewithin, through narrow, obscure, and tortuous streets, their immensepopulation 'Vas excited out from libraries and harams, by thegaudy emulation of justs and tournarnents.Sorne doubts have existedas to the estimations Qf their population; but when theirhabits of lifeare considered, none need do so. The horse was as completely' a ctlomiciliatedanimal as his master. The three objects for which 'they, asabove recited, lived, are retainanlè within a very limited space. 1'heirœconomics too, their abstemious habits, and diet so almost entirelyvegetable, admitted of a vast population within a very Iimited pro"portionate scope, in this happy clirnate.They Wereas different too, intheir turn, from their conquerors and evictors as possible.They losttheir country by notbeing united underone heâd;and this aff~rd~one ofthe innumerable instances of history, ,vhicn show how inefficint~the most $UperiOf means are, to countervail a radical disadvantage inthat respect.ANDALUSIA (or Vandalusia), the tract sOllth of the Sierra Morena,orbetween the Guadalquivir and the sea, fotms the lowest of the threeweIl defined Jevels which the surface of Spain presents.Thus the geologyof Spain is an alternation of edges and hotizontals: the former,fragments of a wreck, the latter in some instances the alluvial deposits,of Nature, argiIlaeeous in La MaDcha, hete àrenose"*.This iSRtract of loarny sand, where water is found at a yard's dcpth below thesurface.from above.Here it emerges from below; in La Maneha if: is retainedSouth of the Sierra Morena, say the 8paniards, wÎntet* 1 deduce this ..word from arena, as the mosteicptewve.