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Descripcion de España de Harif Alcides Coneido. Madrid, 1799. 4to. This work, by the geographer of Nubia, as he is generally called, is extremely interesting from the picture it gives of Spain under the Moors. It was translated by D.J.A. Condé, who has added notes, comparing its state at that remote period, and in 1799. Ponz Viage de España. Madrid, 1776, &c. 18 vols. 12mo.

Hamburgh, 1771. 8vo. Variorum in Europa Itinerum deliciae. Collectae ab. A. Clytaeo. Bremen, 1605. 8vo. Ponz Viage fuera de España in Europa. Madrid, 1785. 2 vols. 12mo. Moryson's Travels through Europe. 1617. fol. A very curious work. Itinera through the twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohemia, Prussia, Sweden, Turkey, France, Britain, &c. 1617. fol.

Herrera combats this foolish prejudice; and Ponz, in the prologue to the ninth volume of his journey, says that many carried it so far as wantonly to destroy the shade and ornamental trees planted by the municipal authorities. "Trees," they contended, and still believe, "breed birds, and birds eat up the grain." Forests of Great Britain.