. Gibraltar and its sieges, with a description of its natural features . HE Atlantic is connected with the Medi-terranean, as everybody knows, by anarrow channel of irreo-ular configura-tion, the Strait of Gibraltar, which flows betweenthe Rock of Gibraltar on the north, and the Rockof Ceuta, backed by the strange mass of Mons Abyla,or Apes Hill, on the south. Gibraltar was anciently called Calpe; and Calpeand Abyla were the legendary Herculis Columnce,or Pillars of Hercules, which mai-ked the limit ofthe mythical heros conquests, and formed the sup-posed boundary of the Western world. The fab
. Gibraltar and its sieges, with a description of its natural features . HE Atlantic is connected with the Medi-terranean, as everybody knows, by anarrow channel of irreo-ular configura-tion, the Strait of Gibraltar, which flows betweenthe Rock of Gibraltar on the north, and the Rockof Ceuta, backed by the strange mass of Mons Abyla,or Apes Hill, on the south. Gibraltar was anciently called Calpe; and Calpeand Abyla were the legendary Herculis Columnce,or Pillars of Hercules, which mai-ked the limit ofthe mythical heros conquests, and formed the sup-posed boundary of the Western world. The fableoriginated doubtlessly in the fact that the sun, orHercules, to the navigators of the Mediterranean,.
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