A Journey Through Spain In The Years 1786 And 1787 Vol 2 Of 3 PDF Download

Excerpt from A Journey Through Spain in the Years 1786 and 1787, Vol. 2 of 3: With Particular Attention to the Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce, Population, Taxes, and Revenue of That Country; And Remarks in Passing Through a Part of France Oviedo, the capital of the Asturias, stands near the conflux of two little rivers, which pour their water into the Bay of Biscay, at Villaviciosa. It was built by Froila, or Fruela, the son of Alfonso I. surnamed El Catolico, and made the seat of his dominion. This city contains one thousand five hundred and sixty families, and has five thousand eight hundred and ninety-five communicants, besides children under ten years of age, who are computed to be about one thousand six hundred; so that the whole population being seven thousand four hundred and ninety-five, they are not five to a family. It has four parish churches, eight chapels, fix convents, and a sufficient number of priests, with a bishop, his auxiliary, and thirty-six canons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.