After-thoughts of foreign travel : in historic lands and capital cities . sly and importunately theyare begging for bread. The soldiers and priestsheed not their cry, but, by their fast living, im-poverish them all the more. It would seemSpain is as low as she can be. We can but 118 AFTER-THOUGHTS OF FOREIGN TRAVEL. hope some Columbus, or Yasco de Gama, orTell, or Bruce, or Lincoln, or Garibaldi, willcome forth to her rescue, who will be able tobreak her fetters and enable the people to helpthemselves. What a blessing to the nations, itwould be, if Spain again could shed the lightshe did three
After-thoughts of foreign travel : in historic lands and capital cities . sly and importunately theyare begging for bread. The soldiers and priestsheed not their cry, but, by their fast living, im-poverish them all the more. It would seemSpain is as low as she can be. We can but 118 AFTER-THOUGHTS OF FOREIGN TRAVEL. hope some Columbus, or Yasco de Gama, orTell, or Bruce, or Lincoln, or Garibaldi, willcome forth to her rescue, who will be able tobreak her fetters and enable the people to helpthemselves. What a blessing to the nations, itwould be, if Spain again could shed the lightshe did three centuries a^o ! What a blessing itwould be, if she should become truly Christian !So favorably situated, her light would shineover the Mediterranean, casting a halo aroundEgypt, Palestine, Greece, and Italy; over thePyrenees her light would travel to France, Swit-zerland, Germany, and the Netherlands, acrossthe Atlantic to England and America, makingmillions of hearts rejoice and be glad that Spainwas henceforth to be the home of the Christian,the scholar, and V. GERMANY AND BERLIN. TF the traveller enters Germany by the way-*- of Belgium and Holland, he soon discoversthat he is in a low country, and learns the fullsignificance of the term Low Dutch, if he nevercomprehended it before. He can scarcely failof surprise, as he iinds large tracts of land oc-cupied by cities, villages, or farms, situatedseveral feet below the surface of the North Sea,and which would surely be submerged, wereit not for the artificial dikes that have beenbuilt and are kept in repair at great expenseand unyielding industry. This land is the giftof the sea and the river. Most of the countrynorth of France, and along the sea-coast ofPrussia, is fenced off by canals. The wind-millsare rising conspicuously on every hand, andare doing faithful service in lifting the waterfrom the lower to higher canals, that fieldsmay be drained and soils redeemed from theaqueous element, so as to grow corn and whe
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