. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. distant seven days sail from the Columnsof Hercules. At Empurias in Spanish Catalonia theearth still yields memories of that romantic past, in Greekmosaics and alabaster vases of the sixth and fifth centuriesbefore Christ; and at Elx, lower down the coast, there hasbeen found a bust which offers us a marvellous portraitof the type of man who talked with Hannibal at he was precisely by race it is difficult to say, for theworld here was already old when Hannibal came. TheGreek Scylax 300 years ea
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. distant seven days sail from the Columnsof Hercules. At Empurias in Spanish Catalonia theearth still yields memories of that romantic past, in Greekmosaics and alabaster vases of the sixth and fifth centuriesbefore Christ; and at Elx, lower down the coast, there hasbeen found a bust which offers us a marvellous portraitof the type of man who talked with Hannibal at he was precisely by race it is difficult to say, for theworld here was already old when Hannibal came. TheGreek Scylax 300 years earlier called him from Empurias tothe Rhone, a mixture of the Iberian and the Ligurian; andin later years he was known as a Celt of the Confederationof the Volces-Tectosages, who descended from their northernhomes to mingle their blood with that of these Mediterraneanpeople. From the walls of Ruscino Hannibal passed with hisarmy along that narrow road which still carries thetraveller past the Lake of Salses, and with him went theinterest of the on-looking world. We know how he fought ?i. PEAR BLOOM AT VERNET [pdgC 73)
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