Michelot, who was pilot of thè gallies to Lewis the:
XlVth.
Further on, Motril is another little fea port, and on the
road to it, one may fee famphire, orache, dock, thorn-,
apple, and eardomindum growing in the fands on the
fea ihore, with, the Indian fig ihooting out amidftthe-
rocks dafhed by the waves of the fea, In different parts
o f thiscoaft almoil as far weitwardly as Gibraltar there are,
above twelve fugar mills called Ingeniòs. fn Motril only
there are four of them, which coft at leaft eight thou fan d
piftoles each, fugar haying been made there time immemorial
as perfecft according to the opinion of. good judges
as any imported from the Weft Indies, which is not
fo extraordinary when we coniider that the firft* flips of
the cane were fent from hence to the Canary iflands, from
whence Nicholas dc Ovando, governor of Hifpaniola,
introduced them in 1506 into his government, where
they thrived furprifingly : but in Spain their cultivation
is difregarded, though the foil of the meridional
provinces, thè temperature of the air, and the glowing
heat of the fun are well adapted for the cane and many
other productions of South America, which might be
brought to perfection, were induilry and,encouragement
in any proportion to the advantages of nature. With
refpect to fugar it has been neglected through ¿political
motives, and the canes have been rootediup to make way
for
for the vine : èven tîie pine apple, which was firft intro-
duced from: the Spànifli fettlemlents, was unknown in the
royal gardens o f thdisr monarchs, till within théfe few
years, that Boutelou, the king’s under gardener, raifed
them at Aranjuez.
Frdm Motril to Almeria you range along the moun-
tairisy many of which are of marble to the vefy fummit,
the ilrancl is level and fandy, with very little earth, 'except
near Almeria, which antient city was conquered
•from the Moors in 1147 by Alfonfo, ftilcd the emperor,
afliftcd by Garcias king* o f Navarre, Raymond count of
Barcelona, and a fleet o f Genoefe ; thefe laft taking for
their fhare of plunder that beautiful vèffel, fuppofed to
be an emeraldy which they ftill fo carefully preferve' in
their treafury. They make falt-petrè of the firft boiling
at Almeria, which is fent to Granada to undergo a fe-
fcond procefs, without the afliilance o f fixed alkali, nor
does the earth from whence it is collected contain any
gypfum.
About half way towards Cape de Gat there is a large
plain fo full of garnets that a ill ip might be loaded with
them ; they are likewife to be found in a gully formed
by the waVes at the foot o f a hill in that neighbourhood.
The fea fometimes throws up worms hereabouts four or
five inches long, and one broad near the belly, with circular