Though we have no detailed account of St. FauPs
visit, we find his intention of going twice expressed
in his letter to the Romans (xv. 24 — 28).
A gentleman who was lately making a tour in
Spain gave away tracts and portions of the Scrip-
tures in Spanish, which were gladly received. One



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fine-looking fellow, he says, grasped the offered
book, exclaiming, " The priest not like me to read
Testament, but me liketo read Testament very well."
As we said before, Spain is naturally a very
fertile country, and^ were it properly cultivated,
no land would be more productive. There are
beautiful vineyards and orange-groves, and in the
south fig-trees, olives, peaches, limes, melons, and
other delicious fruits grow in abundance. Then
there are beautiful flowers — heaths of every hue,
among which the bees keep up a ceaseless hum ;
aloes, from whose fleshy leaves a violet colour is
obtained ; roses, and yellow cistus. The evergreen-
oak is a favourite ttee ; its acorns are so large and'
sweet that they are roasted and eaten by the poor.
