Bien se lo que son tentaciones del demonio, y que una de las mayores es
ponerle a un hombre en el entendimiento que puede componer y imprimir un
libro, con que gane tanta fama como dineros, y tantos dineros cuanta fama.
CERVANTES.

SECOND EDITION-IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOLUME I.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY G. & C. & H. CARVILL.

BOSTON:

HILLIARD, GRAY AND Co.

1830.

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW-YORK, SS.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twentyseventh day of September, A. D. 1830, in the fiftyfourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, G. & C. & H. Carvill, of the said District, have deposited in this Office the Title of a Book, the Right whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the words following, to wit:

'A Year in Spain. By a Young American.

Bien se lo que son tentaciones del demonio, y que una de las mayores es ponerle a un hombre en el entendimiento que puede componer y imprimir un libro, con que gane tanta fama como dineros, y tantos dineros cuanta fama.-CERVANTES. 'Second Edition, in Two Volumes.'

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FREDERICK J. BETTS,

Clerk of the Southern District of New-York.

PREFACE.

GIVING his Satanic Majesty due credit for the temptation mentioned in our motto, the present work originated in a desire to convey some notion of the manners and customs of the Spanish nation. The writer found much that was peculiar and interesting in them, and was thence led to think, that what had furnished so much pleasure in the immediate study, might not be wholly unattractive, when contemplated through the secondary medium of description. Though this object should not be attained by the work now offered to the public, it may, perhaps, serve to attract attention to a country, which, though inferior to none in interest, has been of all others the most neglected.

The author merely proposes to enable those who have not visited Spain, and have no expectation of doing so, to form an idea of the country and its inhabitants, without abandoning the comforts and security of the fireside. As for the traveller, he may find most of the local information he may require, in Antillon's Geography, and Laborde's View of Spain. He will do well to journey with as little state as possible, and to keep to the popular conveyances; the galera, the carro, or the back of a mule. He will be thus most likely to avoid unpleasant interruption, and to have favorable opportunities for observing the manners of the people. Nor should he fail to follow the old adage of