Page:The Burton Holmes lectures; (IA burtonholmeslect04holm).pdf/256

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page needs to be proofread.

A FORMIDABLE FRAGRANT OF GIBRALTAR By permission

clouds Gibraltar may—like Jove himself—hurl down unerring bolts. Enough, however, of this grim portal of sunny Spain. Let us leave England's fortress, and after a delightful sail across the bay, set foot on Spanish soil at Algeciras, the terminus of the railway. Not many years ago the traveler was forced to journey from Gibraltar northward in a diligence, but this new line of steel has rendered easy of access