Before I quit the territory o f La Mancha, whofe fame
will never perifh as long as wit and humour remain, I
mu ft once more inveftigate the bowels o f the earth, and
fpeak of a miñe of antimony near Santa Cruz de Múdela,
at the foot o f the Sierra Morena, which fince 1774 has
been fuccefsfully worked by Don Antonio Sancha, an
eminent printer at Madrid, who after having been at a
confiderable éxpence, now gets lumps o f regulus o f antimony
o f an enormous iize, one weighing a hundred
and fifty arrobas, and many o f twenty or thirty, the fmall-
eft'of four or five, for which he has a confiderable demand
: he has eftabliihed a manufacture of regulus of antimony,
arid has wrought up above fix hundred arrobas,
To white and cryilaline, as to look like filver, being
fuperior to that of France and Hungary ; it is-a valuable
article in different manufactures, particularly, amongft
printers for making types, and is in great requeft at
Madrid, where the art of printing is now brought to a
remarkable perfection : they are provided with good letter
founders and no foreign types were made ufe o f in
the elegant edition o f Salluft, tranflated by the Infant
Don Gabriel, his catholic majefty’s brother.
Senfible as I am that much mpre -remains do, be faid,
yet I now clofe my labours, though not a thoufandth
part has been mentioned of what the fubje# affords:
moreover
moreover the kingdoms o f Leon, Navarre, Galicia, and
the principality o f Afturias, remain yet to be treated of,
which perhaps may be brought forward hereafter, at a
more favourable opportunity.
T H E END.