text:  With a diversity of soil and climate in which almost spontaneously flourish the chief productions of the tropical as of the temperate zone; with mineral riches which may compete with nay which greatly surpass in their variety and might if well cultivated in their value those of the Americas which she has lost; with a territory vast and virgin in proportion to the population; with a sea-board extensively ranging along two of the great high-ways of nations--the Atlantic and the Mediterranean--and abundantly endowed with noble and capacious harbours; there is no conceivable limit to the boundless production and creation of exchangeable wealth of which with her immense natural resources still so inadequately explored Spain is susceptible that can be imagined save from that deficient supply of labour as compared with the territorial expanse which would gradually come to be redressed as industry was promoted the field of employment extended and labour remunerated