Rimmel, Eugene: Recollections of the Paris exhibition of 1867 (London, 1868)

I92 RECOLLECTIONS OF THE

CHAPTER XVIII.

SPAIN, PORTUGAL AND GREECE.

Finding insufficient the space which had been awarded her
in the building, Spain built herself a large pavilion in the
Park to place therein her raw materials and colonial produce.

After examining the rich and varied metallic ores con-
tained in the soil of that country, it is easy to understand
how it excited by turns the covetousness of the Phoenicians,
the Romans, the Arabs, all conquering people in search of
metals to maintain their warlike power, and to supply their
want of luxuries.

Here is iron from Santa Anna de Bolueta and Bilbao,
copper from Rio-Tinto, tin from Zamora, manganese from
Rio-Baco and Huelva, Mercury from Almaden, zinc from
Vittoria, lead from Jaen, silver from Guadalajara. Caceres,
Murcia, Badajoz, Ciudad-Real, Leon, send us a host of
different minerals; Burgos exhibit marbles, Saragossa alabaster
and rock-salt, Cordova jasper, Ubrillas jet and amber, Canil
sulphur, Toledo kaolin, Alava asphalte, Oviedo coals.
"What riches are heaped in this corner of the world, and
what Wealthy people the Spaniards Would be if they did not
fail in those three essentials i capital, industrious habits, and
spirit of enterprise.

In the next room we see a fine collection or Sherry wiries