It is always a disagreeable task to interfere with the
private affairs of another nation, but as friends of Spain we do venture to ask artists and antiquarians throughout the world to make an effort to save this priceless national monu- ment. A Roman aqueduct is always a beautiful thing, but when it is not simply a ruin, but is doing its duty in bringing water to a great city, the case against demolition is doubled and trebled. We notice with great satisfaction that the Spanish Academies of History and Art have protested against the threatened act of barbarism. If the local authorities at Seville desire, as we believe they do, to attract British, American, and other tourists to their beautiful town we can assure them that it is madness to pull down a Roman aqueduct—what is more, a Roman akinednet, in full working. One of the greatest attractions of Seville would he destroyed with the destruction of the Cafios de Carmona
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