Note 1051 — Chapter II · RETROSPECT.
Reading edition
Jovellanos, Informe en el Expediente de Ley Agraria (Obras, VII, 165-8).
The trouble still exists. In 1898 the Chamber of Agriculture of Upper Aragon states that notwithstanding large subventions to railroads and highways the greater part of the population is as isolated as ever, and it urges the expenditure of 400 or 500 millions of pesetas to convert 250,000 kilométres of mule-track into cheap wagon roads.—Reconstitucion de España, pp. 24, 89.