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Adjoining to this are two • h o t baths. T h e great hail is ; f t o # 4 <> feet
fquare, an d Só in height, with eight windqws .and two -doors* all in
deep recefles. Betweenrthis and th e .oblong .court is a gallery o f j g d f e t
b y 16. All thefe lower apartments have fountains, and are pavedjeithflr
w ith tiles o r marble, In checkers. T h e idea b f the qfclivgs ^ e v id e n tly
taken from fia la a ite s^ o r drop-ftones, found in,-the roofsdof'.natural
caverns. T h e ornaments o f th e friezes are arabèfque, and p e rfe a iy
accord w ith th e Arabic infcriptions, which are h e re .fuitgd. to- th e p u r-
pofe fo r which each apartment was defigned.” ,Aboye is a fuib o f
elegant apartments fo r the winter. T h is edifice was- finilhed A. D*
1336.
T h e chriftian antiquities o f th e middle ages copfift o f numerous
churches, caftles, and monafteries, a su fu al in other E uropean countries.
CHA P T E R II.
BoLiTireAi Geography: '
Religion. r-:E cHefiaft teal’ ^ogr'apBy .^^ofernment .•—Laws.—Population, —r Colo-
' nies.—Army'iBSBpIisuy, &&Éf^^^^PiOlïtfeaJ.i Importance and Relations,
' J 'H E religpOT”b fS p a in is the Roman Catholic, which in 'th is co u n try Keligior.
and P o rtu g a l-h jis ' been carried tq a, pitch o f fahaticifin unknown
to the Italian ftates, o r even in jth e papal territory. -T h e inqliifition
has, in thefe unhappy kingdoms, been invefted with exorbitant power,
and has produced the moft ruinous effects, having been formerly cond
u c e d w ith a fpirit totally the reverfe o f th e mildnefs and charity o f
chriftianity. T h is evil has been recently' fubdued in a confiderable
degree \ b u f one fanatic .reign would fuffice to revive it. A yet greater
evil, which has fprung-from fanatimfm, is th p deffitu&ion o f motals
for th e monks being extremely numerous, and human paffions ever the
fame, thofe afcetics atone for the want o f m arriage by the pra&ice o f
a d u lte ry ; and the hulbands from dread o f the inquifition are cpnftrained
to seonnive at th is enbriftbus abufe. T h e conference is fe fe d sM y& b
practice o f abfblution j an d th e mind becomes, reconciled tb -th ef
firangeft o f a ll phenomenons, theoretic piety an d practical, vice, u n ite d
in bonds almolt indiffohible.
According to the returns made to the government,, the Spanith-dejegy
ftand as f o l l o w ' , i : ;. - Ge°graph)r-
Parochial clergy, called* curas. , *~ - ' r.6,68g:
Affiftaats,"called tenientes curas *
Sacriftams or jfextons - - - IllSIir Acolitos, to affift at the altar - W Ë k
L Townfendj i
3. a Ordinados