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distance of about three miles from Cadiz lighthouse , making that a centre , the eye ranged along an outstretched fore-ground of some twenty-five miles , ( for I won ' t call the sea fore-ground , though it is the nearest object in the picture , ) from Point Chipiona on the one hand , towards Cape Trafalgar in the SE .
the former dwindling off into a low , fine line , as it projected into the sea , and the blue-vapour-looking hills about Seville rising over it ; the latter ( towards Cape Trafalgar ) leaving the slopes and hillocks of sand , where the waves gently and sportively broke , and rising into a perpendicular and dark , rocky wall , against which the billows dashed angrily , as at a barrier that
coldly scorned and spurned the assault . From glancing the eye along the bare line thus spoken of , we return again to the NW ., and , mark the objects that checker the scene on the beach and shore , where the yellow sand lies basking under the southern sun , and Rota elevates its rough front and embattled walls—the frowning and watchful guardian of that side of the
entrance to the harbour of Cadiz , which from that point indented and drew back in a noble and beautiful semicircular sweep , as if holding out an embracing arm of welcome to the long-absent bark and the ocean wanderer , which here were bid to repose on the secure and unruffled bosom of the haven , after toil and peril : and the whole of that shore , from Rota to Puerto Santa Maria ,
embellished with the deep and luxurious tinting of the glowing clime ; less beautiful and pastoral than the landscape-green in England , but voluptuous , heated , and glittering in its picturesque of russet , golden , grey , and blue variety , with here and there a
little island of green , lying as a carpet on the sand , between two stately-looking mansions , whose walls were of dazzling whiteness ; and far , far back , towering up in solemn dignity , massively dark at first , then fading away into dense vapoury remoteness , those far-famed mountains of Estremadura . —Cervantes' immortalized
hills , —the Sierra Morena , like intense meditations , gazing on the world , which they saw not . Then , starting out from the creek under St . Mary ' s walls , the market , water , and passage boats , with snowy wings or splashing oars , standing across the bay , careless of our watchful gaze , till the walls of the city shut them in . And there , too , the combined Spanish and French fleet ; the
tricolor floating amicably in the same fanning breeze with the golden ensigns of Spain , which so soon afterwards were swung against each other in deep and deadly animosity . Then , to an Englishman who has never seen an assemblage of houses and churches , all built of pure white stone , and shining beneath a
warm sky , the city of Cadiz is an object which fills liim with wonder , delight , and admiration ; looking , as it does from this point of view , like a gathering of marble palaces : he knows not of the narrow and filthy streets , and the thousands of abominations which beset the passenger at every step within its walls : he
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216 Autobiography of Pel . Verjuice ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1834, page 216, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2631/page/60/
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