GRANADA. This beautiful Spanish pro vince is covered with a luxuriant vegetation. The sumach and the cork trees, the oak bearing the edible fruit, and many other valuable trees and shrubs, form the extensive thickets of the Sierras. The soil is very productive and the agriculture good. Metals are abundant in the mountains. Near Cann* alone there are 117 lead mines. Copper ore lies on the surface in many places ; antimony and quick silver are found near Malaga, and molybdenum at Ronda. Coal is found on the margins of the Beiro and of the Alfacar, near the capital. Exquisite marbles, jaspers, and alabaster, are abundant.
The famous city of Granada, the capital of the province, has fallen from its ancient gran deur. It still has, however, a royal manufac tory for saltpetre and gunpowder, and several manufactories of silk stuffs, such as velvet, taffetas, satin, handkerchiefs, and ribands. The sewing silk of Granada is preferred to all others.
There is yet another Granada— the New Granada of South America, one of the lately formed republics of that continent. The productions of New Granada include cacao, cotton, coffee, tobacco, indigo, rice, and sugar. The forests furnish Nicaragua and Brasiletto wood, fustic, and logwood. To these may be
added the Cinchona, or Peruvian bark. The numerous herds which pasture on the Llanos furnish hides and tasajo, or dried meat ; horses, mules, and horned cattle are exported to the West Indies. The mineral riches are considerable, and mostly occur on the western declivity of the three chains of the Andes. They consist of gold, silver, platinum, mer cury, copper, lead, iron, and rock-salt. The produce of gold seems to be on the increase, but has not yet attained the quantity which was got before the war of independence. Iron and coal are found in the mountains border ing on the table land ofBogota : some attempts have been made to work the iron-mines, and the coal is used in the smithies and for the steamboats. Rock salt and salt springs occur. The manufacturing industry is not important. It is limited to woollen and cotton stuffs of a coarse texture, only adapted for the use of the lower classes, and mostly made by the con sumers. British produce and manufactures were exported to New Granada in 1848 to the value of 217,0101. : the chief port of debarka tion being Cartagena.