DISCOURAGEMENT OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY IN SPAIN
... DISCOURAGtMlNT OF COMMIERCE AND INDUSTRY IN SPAIN. The Spaniards are a people so little industrious that, with a soil in many respects the most fertile in Europe, they donot raise corn sufficient for their Own consumption, and, according to the Count de Cabarrus, in his Letters to Jovellanos, require to import a million of fanegas annually, whilst Bour- going estimates the annual deficiency at ...