Excerpt from The Parent's Gift, or Traits and Characters of Various Nations: Interspersed With Geographical Remarks Adapted to the Juvenile Part of Mankind, and Ornamented With Many Beautiful Engravings Spain being a mountainous country, and of great extent, the air is very different in the north and south, as well as in the mountains and vallies. There are some sandy, barren deserts in the south, but their vallies in general are very fruitful, and their mountains are co vered with trees and herbage to the very tops. The country produces a variety of rich wines, oil, and fruit also silk, wool, flax, and cot ton; and the steel of Toledo and Bilboa is esteemed the best in Europe. 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.