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CATALONI1\ A(:ND ITS' INltA~BITANTS.campaign of Cœsar agairlst the lieutenants of Pompey. Sucb is dlèamount:ofthe literary stock wherewith the traV'eUe'r'is tt> eBcountet the~ne:xplored scenes before him ••The vast expanse of blue above and below has not time topall on thesight, in descending the Pyrenees tô the southward, untii the abrùptand pièturosque (butinot' mountainous)scenery of thisptoviIlce (Cata­Ionia) supersedes all byits superior Înterest. 'llhe evening and theclosing of night in this country are succeeded by impressions of adifferent description. At that season, on approaching a village, the earis tirst struck with music, and the song re-echoing and retorted as if ineompetitÎon~ On approaching them still nearer,the delightful odouts sent(Jutat nightfall hy tlie teeming orchards which completely surroutldthertl'; tlieboughs heutto the earth byweightofproduce, orprôppedupby forks, as is theusual process, next strike the sense. The town orvillage, on entry, is dark: butthiscitcumstance only serves togive re·lief to the l'est ofthepicture;-...i.to the crowd, bustle, and vivacityoftheinhabitants, whosee'mtbhave b~ulished sleep from the catalogue ofthewants of nature. For in a fmv short hours, àt day'.i:.break, agaÎn aU isactivityof another kincl,.........indu8try,...-unless ft pon the intervention of agaladay,which i8 ofveryfrequentrecurrence. On thisoccasionthewholehumanwofl'd shiues out Here asflneas tinsel, silksandsatins, can nlàk!ethèm. InthèsegaudYmatèrials, witliapair of enormous silver oncklesof the most ponderous taste on his toes, and a diminutive three-cornered* See, Bot Remarques sur l'ArtideEspagne, dans 18'NouvelleEncyèlopédie, but theartieleitself. It is cornmon to aIl nations wliera literature doesllot prevail, to be readilyexcited to wrathby observations conveyed through the medium of the press: Thus the remarks of the French phi'"100opherupon Spain have obtained thàt diffusion, by the spirit of resentnient they have excitedinthe minds of the proud Castillians, impatient of reproach, which they never could have aspired to,confinedin the voluminous tomes of an Encyclopœdia, rarely looked into (save by the suspicioUi4::ritie) fôr aught so totally heterogeneous to the title and object of such a work.G2