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reports of many travellers.

Public cabs and conveyances for either city or country travel are very good. The Mules, horses and cattle of all kinds are usually of good stock and seem to be well fed, but often cruelly worked. Fruit of many kinds is plenty and cheap. Native wine is good and much cheaper than in France!

But the great drawback to the future of Spain seems to me to be the widespread ignorance, indolence and apathy of its people. When you add to such characteristics supreme cruelty you have a combination of little value when put in [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] competition