which they find fmall cryftals, red, yellow and white, with
two points like diamonds as regularly cut as if done by a
lapidary. The red and yellow are hyacinths. A fpring.
called Fuente Caliente iffues from that fide of the mountain,
and waters the lands belonging to the houfe of the
late admiral Don Jorge Juan (a), fo well known to the
learned world, who was born at Novelda, in this neighbourhoods
(o) Dan Jörge Jüan died in 1773, and is-buried in the chnrcB of St. Martin, in Madfid,.
where a monument is erefted to ,his memory,.with his baft in prahle, by Philip.de, Caftro,.
and the following infcription..
E x D V D . G eorg iu s J u a n & S a n ta c ìlià Ñ o v e ld á e a p i d 'V a len tin o s n a ta s , m e liten fis t
o rd in is E q u e s , B e llic a e claffis .agmini P r a e fe B u s , n o b ilis J cb o la e n a u tica e cobortts. D u x
e t R e g ii - m a tr ìten fis . f im ìn a r i i ■m o d e ra to r : Domito, novae, f l r u t lu r a e . u a v ib ii s . m a r i, ,
lu f ir a ta L e g a t io n s a t M a r o c b ium A f r i c a , p e ra g ra ta a d te lh ir is fig u r a ta a jfe r en iam .
Am e r ic a , l it e r a r iis là b o r itu s E u ro p a efufque 'a c a S em iis ,E ifp à h a D i v i F e r dm a n d i, G a l l
ic a , A n g l i c a , e t B o ru fa U lu ftra tis , q u am -a -D è o o ccu perai v i ta m , p ie ta tem optm i/qu e
moribus e x cu ltam , p o t i annos E X . D e o r ed d id it M b t r i t i K a l J u l . A . M . M D C C L X X I I I .
carìffimo f r a t r i . B e rn a rd a s , e t M a r g a r i ta maerentes annuente I I I . D . D . jo c iim a e Z a p
a t a , M a r c h ia n e S . M ic h a e li s d é G r o s corpus h ic ic o n d i .et monumentimi p o n i c u r a rm i .
Don Jorge Jüan publiihed the following works*.
Compendiò de là navegación para el ufo de Jos Caballeros Guardias Mannas. Cadiz, 1757.
' Examen Maritime T e o r i c o P r a t i c o - ; - o Tratado de Mecánica aplicada a la. Conltrsccion
conocimiento yMfenejo-de los navios,,,8cc-.. Madrid, lyji»
Relación hiftoríca del ala Viage America meridional y obfírvaciónes aflf onomicas, yPhyficas
en el reyno de. Peru-por Don Jörge Jftan y. Don Antonio de Ullóa, 5 tomos, 410. Madrid?
1748. The hiflorieal part of this-work was written by Don Antonio de Ullqa, now, an adT
mirai in thè Spanilh fleet, and has-been tranflited into Engiilh, of.whichnthere has lately-been
a third and improved edition. See “ A-voyage to South America, defcribing at large the Spa.
nilh towns, provinces, fee. on that exten&ve. continent, undertaken by.command o f .the, king
o f Spain, by Don Geo. Juan and Don Ant. de.UUoa.F, R. S. fee. with copper plates, and
a preface by Dr. Campbell, 2 vol. 8vo.”
On doubling the firit point o f land to the eaftward
-of Alicant, the bay and harbour o f St. Paul prefents
itfelf, with a view o f the antient caftle o f the duke o f
Arcos. Here the ihips come to an anchor and load fait
from the Mata, a great lake by the fea fide, but without
any vifible communication with it. The quantity o f
fait collected here is immenfe, and is the property of
the king, coiling little more than the labour of heaping
it, being in a manner produced naturally. The high
bank which feparates the fea from the Mata appears natural;
the lake is bounded on the land fide by mountains,
and is formed by the torrents of rain water that guih
down in winter, which evaporating gradually by the
heat of the fun, added to the nature of the foil, become a
mafs of fait, fo plentiful that fome years the exports have
amounted to near one hundred thoufand tun weight,
chiefly for Holland and the Baltic; confiderable quantities
alfo are in demand for curing o f fiih, particularly
for Newfoundland and New England. The colt is about
eleven ihillings fterling per tun, on board; and the king,
in order to encourage the export, lets the price always
remain the fame jpB The foil and air in general, on
the coaits o f Valencia, Murcia, and Granada, is im-
(a) The ifland of Ivica alfo produces immenfe -quahtitiis of fait with as little trouble'and.
expence as that of the Mata, and they have-a-confiderable exportation, much on the fame
footing, it being equally the property of-the king. This is fait .alfo fold for home confiamp-
tioft, at a price equal to about four {billing-fterling per cwt. Englifh,
Z z 2 pregnared