Windows of Spanish houses were seldom glazed until about one hundred years ago. When Bertaut de Rouen travelled here in 1659, this fact impressed him disagreeably. Even in the royal palace at Madrid he found that there were chambers "qui n'ont point du tout de fenestrés, ou qui n'en ont qu'une petite, et d'où le jour ne vient que d'enhaut, le verre estant fort rare en Espagne, et la pluspart des fenestrés des maisons n'ayant pas de vitres." In 1787, Arthur Young was no less horrified at the glassless condition of the houses in Cataluña. "Reach Sculló; the inn so bad that our guide would not permit us to enter it, so he went to the house of the Curé. A scene followed so new to English eyes, that we could not refrain from laughing very heartily. Not a pane of glass in the whole town, but our reverend host had a chimney in his kitchen; he ran to the river to catch trout; a man brought us some chickens which were put to death on the spot.... This town and its inhabitants are, to the eye, equally wretched, the smoke-holes instead of chimneys, the total want of glass windows--the cheerfulness of which, to the eye, is known only by the want." However, as an exception to this doleful rule, the town of Poeblar had "some good houses with glass windows, and we saw a well-dressed young lady gallanted by two monks." PRINTED BY NEILL AND COMPANY, LIMITED, EDINBURGH. * * * * * * Transcriber's note: The original spelling and minor inconsistencies in the spelling and formatting have been maintained. Inconsistent hyphenation and accents are as in the original if not marked as an misprint. The table below lists all corrections applied to the original text. p. x: LIX -> LIX. p. 20: Mr Cunninghame Graham -> Mr. p. 23: avec leurs enfans -> enfants p. 32: feu. L'hôte -> L'hôtel p. 33: choses est règlé -> réglé p. 39: fort peuplée autresfois -> autrefois p. 71: pp. 161, 162 -> pp. 161, 162. p. 72: León Cathedral_ -> León Cathedral_) p. 96: peintures variées de bon gôut -> goût p. 98: on the cover. -> on the cover." p. 104: (see Vol. I. Plate xi.) -> (see Vol. I., Plate xi.) p. 132: appear to be galloping. -> galloping." p. 139: and "Pisano." -> and "Pisano". p. 139: "_de relieve_." -> "_de relieve_". p. 159: les plus compliqúes -> compliqués p. 159: qu'un bal masqúe -> masqué p. 169: the journal of Bertant -> Bertaut p. 180: Quarte, Vilallonga -> Villalonga p. 183: degree of delicacy. -> delicacy." p. 188: says Señor Osmo -> Osma p. 188: and another [Illustration] -> [Illustration]. p. 213: style of Capo-di-Monte. -> Capo-di-Monte." p. 225: in France and Spain. -> Spain." p. 228: albeit the the -> albeit the p. 236: VESSELS OF CATALAN GLASS -> LXXV VESSELS OF CATALAN GLASS p. 254: GLASS OF THE -> LXXVI GLASS OF THE