[Footnote 185: Four hundred years after Theodemir, his
territories of Murcia and Carthagena retain in the Nubian
geographer Edrisi (p, 154, 161) the name of Tadmir,
(D'Anville, Etats de l'Europe, p. 156. Pagi, tom. iii. p.
174.) In the present decay of Spanish agriculture, Mr.
Swinburne (Travels into Spain, p. 119) surveyed with
pleasure the delicious valley from Murcia to Orihuela, four
leagues and a half of the finest corn pulse, lucerne,
oranges, &c.]