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MARTOREL, ETC. 59,men would do" who were managing the matter for their own advantage,and with their own me:.ins. Applied, pro)::>ably, most particularly to;such examples. as this, the great Adam 8n:iith says, "810thful and neg~ligentprofusion is pecuJiar to monarchies." U nder a governmentwhere the community was accustomed to tal(e an active interest in sucbthings, the abuse certainly could not happen. But to recur to Mont~serrat, to which (for this is in two senses a deviation) Martorel, twelvemiles from Barcelona, is the direct route. To visit it, a letter of intro~duction to sorne one at the convent is at least eligible; and the follow-$u.bjoined as an exemp1ary specimen in its way.:Recibe los portadores de esta 'carta con la mas particular'accordinglyproceededUpOll.Martore1 wasreachedbefore midnight, and presented the usualS.cene, music, sueh as it is, adequate fully to the intended effect; sing­""",.ot'..r in its dim streets, crowded posadas, cornmqnwaiting-girls. Barly in th~ morning the long...this interesting obje6t took place. But to give a JustaPs.olut(~J'y ne~essary that the reader should first divesttl1e:recm that he may have acquired through theOf, to express it more closely, that he should re~COI~n(lerlCe in graven images~.~0101e comp1.1t(l.tioDS makethis mountain .three thousand feet at itsisu~lnitabovetheJevelùfthesea; sorne, fwo thousand above the ad.,.jâeêntsurntrÎitlevels ofthe country.. Prpbably they are bdth near the*i)'hose in the workof Labor~e,with aU its magnificence, notexcepted; the shivery appearaucehis engravings convey, totally mlsrepresents the features of this exbraordinary mass.1 .2