Rambles in sunny Spain . eaches to this height,as well as does the din from the streets. An ancient city like this,with all its structures of imperishable stone, with roofs, tiles, andnarrow streets, presents somewhat the appearance of a vast rockyplain with hillocks and rocky mounts and innumerable rivuletswandering through, which have worn deep channels in them, likeminiature Colorado canons. These rivulets are the streets, overhungby high houses, and which pour forth floods of humanity, — hundredsof men and women, boys and girls, crazily flitting about, consumingthe precious moments of thei
Rambles in sunny Spain . eaches to this height,as well as does the din from the streets. An ancient city like this,with all its structures of imperishable stone, with roofs, tiles, andnarrow streets, presents somewhat the appearance of a vast rockyplain with hillocks and rocky mounts and innumerable rivuletswandering through, which have worn deep channels in them, likeminiature Colorado canons. These rivulets are the streets, overhungby high houses, and which pour forth floods of humanity, — hundredsof men and women, boys and girls, crazily flitting about, consumingthe precious moments of their worthless lives. Being elevated far above our fellow-mortals, we can look downupon them with calm contempt,—as we do, improving this opportu-nity for reflections upon their follies. But the hives of these insectsare far more interesting than they, and there they lie before us, •an agglomeration of stone cells, stretching away and away, with theriver bounding them on two sicks, and on two others the verdant INTERIOR OF THE CATHEDRAL, SEVILLE. SIGHT-SEEING IN SEVILLE. 171 The walls of Seville, it is said, are more than a league in circuit;but you might walk around for hours without seeing a wall, so muchhave they been incorporated into the city itself. In our morningwalk we did, finally, find some noble ruins of great walls with towersand gates, — massive, time-defying, but altogether useless. Someof the city gates are worth studying to-day, and all of the plazasare worth visiting. Looking down upon the sea of roofs, nearlyevery house seems covered with a garden ; for the guttered tileshave retained moisture and silt enough to give attachment to mil-lions of plants, and these were in full bloom, so that masses of greensand yellows mingled with the rich reds of the tiles. The plazas appear merely as small openings in this stone to the tower is the Plaza del Triunfo (or Place of Triumph),bounded by the Cathedral, the Alcazar, and the Lonja. In the far
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