ABSTRACT
W E arrived in Palma in the month of November in 1838, in a heat comparable to that of the month of June in our country. We had left Paris a fortnight earlier in extremely cold weather. For us it was a great pleasure, after having felt the first touches of winter, to leave the enemy behind us. To this pleasure was added that of looking round a city of great character, which possesses a large number of monuments of the first order in beauty and rarity.
