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Mooas AND NEGItORS OONSUME MANUPACTURES. 319Spaniard.s,to la,in.a y$]dJ~id~ntstock ofl'adicai haat .duriillg summerto calfry ithem through th,e winter. From itsgl'eater eJevation, thenorthern province here is certain1y less warm than Andalusia. They donot ,hQweverneglec;t, bYia. judicious mode ofdress, to put themsel\Tesetrectuallyà rabriof", theseasons personally. lit iswonderful how few.are. seenina stateofwl\ct.chedneS8, iutPegard to this necessary accommo*dation of miserable.human nature, inso vast a,population. 'Entbusiastsand fanatical mountehanks out of the Ciuestion, theproportioD. of the1raggedpart .of the society to thexest.is far lessthan in any country ofEUfQP.e.. This, however,.relates.to Moorsand Negros, not to Arabs. Thedescriptio..n of.this.article iofnecessit;y will yprovetheyare noniggardlyconsumersi;of llilal>ufactures,·andthatthis consumption is hy nomeans a.despicable 0 bjeetto • !mallufa.cturingnation. 'J!here is however no wherrégreatervarietyseen, intllecourseof llhe day,.whether in 'Juantity orquality, from the ,Arab boy or evenadult inthesumtner solstice starknaked, and of course atzero in the scale, to the 8tately Moor, ·turbanedand dothedfrom head to foot, in summerjn fine muslins, in winter in·thick woollens. The dressof the common people is ofdomestic manufacture,and denominatedal haik: oue long piece of their thinhlanketstuif, a composition somewhat between blauket and serge. As it is thei1*'dress in the day, i.twilllikewise serve them to pass the night in, th

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