Travels through Spain, with a view to illustrate the natural history and physical geography of that kingdom, in a series of letters |
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Seite 437 - tis a round thick earthy shrub that bears berries like barberries, betwixt blue and green ; it lies close to the ground, and when it is ripe they dig it up by the roots, and put it together in cocks, where they leave it to dry many days like hay ; then they make a pit of a fathom deep in the earth, and with an...
Seite 246 - The manner of her building this cell is equally furprifing. In the hinder part of her body, nature has provided her with a round...
Seite 157 - The Spaniards and Irish take it most in powder or smutchin, and it mightily refreshes the brain, and I believe there is as much taken this way in Ireland as there is in pipes in England.
Seite 10 - Thefe are properly ranged under the belly of the infect, progreilively placed in the neft of down, that covers its body, which it withdraws in proportion to the number of eggs : after this work is performed, it foon dies, though it...
Seite 439 - I passed, and saw many monuments of Roman antiquities there ; amongst others, there is the temple dedicated to Venus, when the snake came about her neck, a little before Hannibal came thither.
Seite 244 - Eftremadura, but in general are not taken notice of, if not very numerous, as they commonly feed upon wild herbs, without preying upon gardens, and cultivated lands, or making their way into houfes. The peafants look at them with indifference, while they are frifking about in the fields...
Seite 299 - Una vez me mandó que fuese a desafiar a aquella famosa giganta de Sevilla llamada la Giralda, que es tan valiente y fuerte como hecha de bronce, y, sin mudarse de un lugar, es la más movible y voltaria mujer del mundo.
Seite 14 - Then they let it dry, paffing it through a fearce, and make it up into bags. In the middle of each its proportion of red duft put in a little leather bag alfo belongs to the buyer, and then it is ready for exportation, being always in demand on the African coaft. The people of Hinojos, Bonares, Villalba, and other parts of the kingdom of Seville, dry it on mats in the fun...
Seite 303 - ... empties itfelf into the Mediterranean near Huelva, having the name of Tinto given it from the tinge of its waters, which are as yellow as a topaz, hardening the fand and petrifying it in a moft furprizing manner. If a ftone happens to fall in and reft upon another, they both become in a year's time perfectly united and conglutinated. This river withers all the plants on its banks, as well as the roots of trees, which it dyes of the fame hue as its waters, no kind of verdure will come up where...
Seite 367 - And fiow'ring odors, cafiia, nard, and balm ; A wildernefs of fweets ; for Nature here Wanton'd as in her prime, and play'd at will 295 Her virgin fancies, pouring forth more fweet, Wild above rule or art ; enormous blifs.