world in a valuable work called Recueil de diverfes Pieces touchant quelques nouvelles Machines, printed at Caffel, in 1695. He called this machine Rotatilis Suctor et Preffor.

I have been the more particular on this fubject, because a tallow-chandler in London has lately affumed the invention to himself and taken out a patent, although, as it thus appears, neither the machine itself, nor the purposes to which he would apply it, have any claim to novelty.

Near the convent of Victoria I took notice of fome blue marly clay, of which are made the earthen jugs, called bucaros and alcarrazas, used in this part of Spain for cooling water. It is remarkable, that when the scorching terral wind prevails, liquids exposed to it in these jugs, become as cold as if buried in the fnow; but, if subjected to the influence of the eaft wind, they foon grow warm. To explain this, we must obferve that the bucaros being porous, fuffer the water to tranfude, and to cover, as with dew, the external furface of the veffel; in confequence of which, being exposed to the dry land wind, the evaporation is car

ried on with rapidity, and, in propor= tion to the evaporation is the cold thereby produced; whilst the east wind, sweeping along the furface of the fea, becomes faturated with moisture, and therefore not only is itself incapable of carrying on the process of evaporation, and of increasing cold, but, operating as warm vapour, it has an oppofite effect.

The effect of evaporation no where appears more striking than in the East Indies, where, for the purpose of procuring ice, they make large pits in wide extended plains, and nearly filling them with canes, they place on these, very shallow pans, unglazed and porous, and filled with boiling Thus expofed during the night to the influence of the land breeze, a pellicle of ice is formed before the morning on the furface of the water, always thicker if the wind has been warmer than usual.

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When I was returned from the Victoria, the young count de Villalcazar, to whom, as well as to his father, I was under the highest obligations for their polite attentions, invited me to take a ride with him to see his country-house called the Retiro. VOL. III.

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It is indeed a beautiful retreat, fituated on a declivity at the feet of the mountains, and not far diftant from the fea; both which, with Malaga, contribute to enrich its profpects. It is a very ancient habitation, in the form of a caftle; but as it was never strong, it must have been defigned only to prevent furprise from the nocturnal vifits of the Moorish pirates. The numerous fountains in the garden are pretty, and well fupplied with water. The fruit trees are luxuriant. Here oranges, lemons, limes, citrons, olives, vines, apricots, figs, and almonds, mix together in beautiful confufion. Could I have prolonged my stay at Malaga, I fhould frequently have vifited this enchanting spot.

This little excurfion prepared me for one to a greater distance from the city.

Whilft I was attending the folemnities of Eafter in the cathedral, I became acquainted with a perfon who happened to stand near to me, and who, after answering my enquiries, and explaining to me such ceremonies as moft excited my attention, had the goodness to invite me to his house. Struck with the frankness of his manner, I ac

I accepted the invitation and went home with him, where I had the happiness of finding, in the perfon of his father, one of the moft fenfible and moft intelligent of thofe, who honoured me with their friendship and esteem.

After I became more intimate in the fa mily, this gentleman, called don Felix Solefio, preffed me to spend a few days with him at his country-feat. On the eve of my departure my time was precious; yet, fuch was the cordiality of his invitation, that I determined to comply with it.

On Thursday, 12th April, we left the city, and, travelling weftward, in a few hours we arrived at S. Carlos, near to Aroyo de la Miel, in the vicinity of which the fnow continued ftill unmelted on the mountains. Here don Felix has just finished a fpacious manfion, with an extenfive garden; the latter well planted with every thing the foil and climate can admit of; the former, though vast, yet inelegant, and destitute of taste. Utility being every where confulted, without the leaft attention, to appearance, the poultry-yard and pig-fties are in the rfont of the house, and in the whole pile D 2 there

there is not one good room, nor the leaft regard to fymmetry, but all the apartments are scattered and void of order, as if built without a plan. At his table appears the greatest affluence, and nothing but plate is to be feen; yet the same want of symmetry prevails, and the fame deficiency of refinement, as if he had previously determined to have nothing modern. His eldest fon, my firft acquaintance, seems here to be unemployed; whilst the second, an active youth, overlooks the labourers, and occafionally works among them.

The eftate they cultivate, is more than two leagues in length, and one in breadth, by the sea fide, and hanging to the fun. Much of the land is good, the rest only fit for sheep; and the whole quantity, as near as I could calculate, is about twelve thoufand acres, for the fee-fimple of which he gave twenty thousand hard dollars, or four thousand pounds sterling.

It is but two years fince he made the purchase, and in that short space of time he has planted two hundred thousand vines, five thousand olives, one hundred and twenty thousand mulberries, five hundred and eighty