With your leave, we will enter the Café de la Bolsa, which is ornamented with little mirrors, hollowed out behind, so as to form different designs, such as are to be seen in certain German glasses. Here is the list of the _bebidas heladas_, of the _sorbetes_, and of the _quesitos_. The _bebida helada_ (iced drink) is contained in glasses distinguished by the name of _grandes_ or _chicos_ (large or small), and offers a great variety; there is the _bebida de naranja_ (orange), _de limon_ (lemon), _de fresa_ (strawberry), and _de guindas_ (cherries), which are as superior to those frightful bottles of sour currant juice and citric acid, which the proprietors of the most splendid Parisian cafés are not ashamed to serve up to their customers, as real sherry is to authentic _vin de Brie_: the _bebida helada_ is a kind of liquid ice, a sort of most delicious _purée de neige_, of the most exquisite flavour. The _bebida de almendra blanca_ (white almonds) is a delightful beverage, which is unknown in France, where we gulp down a something which is dignified by the name of _orgeat_, and compounded of a number of horrible medicinal materials of some kind or other. You can also procure iced milk, half strawberry, half cherry, which, while your body is boiling in the torrid zone, causes your throat to revel in all the frosts and snows of Greenland. During the daytime, when the ices are not yet ready, you have the _agraz_, a kind of beverage made of green grapes, and contained in bottles with extraordinarily long necks; the taste of this _agraz_ is slightly acid and exceedingly pleasant. You can also indulge in a bottle of _Cerveza de Santa Barbara con limon_; but this requires some little preparation. First of all, a bowl and a large spoon are brought, like that with which punch is stirred round. A waiter then advances, carrying a bottle fastened at the top with wire. He undoes this with a vast amount of care, the cork pops out, and the beer is poured into the bowl, into which a small decanter of lemonade has previously been emptied. The whole is then stirred round with the spoon; you fill your glass, and swallow the contents. If this mixture does not please you, you have only to enter one of the _orchaterias de chufas_, which are generally kept by natives of Valencia. The chufa is a little berry, of the almond species, which grows in the environs of Valencia, and which, when roasted and beaten in a mortar, forms an exquisite beverage, especially when mixed with snow. Prepared in this manner it is extremely refreshing.