as agreed to
make a reduction of 10 _reals_ per sheet in his estimate, which I
consider very liberal conduct, as the former charge, considering the rate
of printing at Madrid, was by no means high. We have resolved to print
the work precisely the same in shape and size as the copy entrusted to my
charge, except that we shall substitute single for double columns.

I shall look over each sheet of the work myself, but in order to bring
out as correct an edition as possible I have engaged the literary
assistance of Dr. Usoz, the gentleman who some time since addressed a
letter to the Society, in which he expressed a wish to become a member.
He is one of the best Castilian scholars in Madrid, and, as he feels zeal
in the cause, will, I have no doubt, prove eminently useful. Any
remuneration for his labour he will leave to the consideration of the
Bible Society and myself.

We shall commence printing within a few days, and I expect to have the
work ready within ten weeks.

Now permit me to propose a very important question to you. What is to be
done with the volumes when the work shall have passed through the press?
As I am sure you will feel at a loss to give a satisfactory answer, allow
me to propose the only plan which appears feasible. Believe me when I
say that it is not the result of a few moments' cogitation. I have mused
on it much and often. I mused on it when off Cape Finisterre in the
tempest, in the cut-throat passes of the Morena, and on the plains of La
Mancha, as I jogged along a little way ahead of the smuggler. It is
this.

As soon as the work is printed and bound, I will ride forth from Madrid
into the wildest parts of Spain, where the Word is most wanted, and where
it seems next to an impossibility to introduce it. I will go through the
whole of the Asturias and Galicia, and along the entire line of the
Pyrenees, not forgetting to visit every part of Biscay. To accomplish
this I must have horses and a man to take care of them. To purchase
horses will be much more economical than to hire them, as the hire of an
animal for a journey of only thirty leagues generally amounts to nearly
its full value; the purchase of three horses will not amount to more than
36 pounds, and a servant may be obtained for 9d. per day and his board.

I will take with me 1200 copies, which I will engage to dispose of, for
little or much, to the wild people of the wild regions which I intend to
visit. As for the rest o