The Alhambra . ^SS^t^Vh? .i^^.x ^>^tjUv»i AK --^--u^>-—--^ -v;^>,i^.._^ V Spanish landscape, that impresses on the soul a feeling ofsublimity. The immense plains of the Castiles and of La. 6 THE ALUAMBRA Mancha. extending as for as the eye can reach, derive aninterest from their very nakedness and immensity, and possess,in some degree, the solemn grandeur of the ocean. In rangingover these boundless wastes, the eye catches sight here andthere of a straggling herd of cattle attended by a lonelyherdsman, motionless as a statue, with his long slender pike tapering up like a fiance int
The Alhambra . ^SS^t^Vh? .i^^.x ^>^tjUv»i AK --^--u^>-—--^ -v;^>,i^.._^ V Spanish landscape, that impresses on the soul a feeling ofsublimity. The immense plains of the Castiles and of La. 6 THE ALUAMBRA Mancha. extending as for as the eye can reach, derive aninterest from their very nakedness and immensity, and possess,in some degree, the solemn grandeur of the ocean. In rangingover these boundless wastes, the eye catches sight here andthere of a straggling herd of cattle attended by a lonelyherdsman, motionless as a statue, with his long slender pike tapering up like a fiance into the air ; orbeholds a long train ofm^ -^^ mules slowly moving along the waste like a ag^ train of camels in the ^?, ? desert ; or a single horseman, armed withblunderbuss and sti-letto, and prowling overthe plain. Thus thecountry, the habits, thevery looks of the people,have something of theArabian character. Thegeneral insecurity of thecountry is evinced in^^?^^^^ the universal use of -^ .^(^^^_ weapons. The herds- ^^, ^\ ^^ ^^^**. man in the field, the shepherd in the plain,has his musket and his knife. The wealthy villager rarely venturesto the market-town without his frabuco, and,
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