. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. ar it is the rock of Filabres, 2000 feet iiigh, composed of a single block of white marble;and beyond it stretches into the sea the bold and huge promontory of Cabo de Gata. Guadix,Baza, and Purchena, are considerable interior towns, in the eastern part of this province,seated in valleys enclosed by the numerous ranges of hills which intersect it. Santa Fe,two leagues west of Granada, is remarkably exposed to earthquakes, which have split itscathedral in two, and laid o
. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. ar it is the rock of Filabres, 2000 feet iiigh, composed of a single block of white marble;and beyond it stretches into the sea the bold and huge promontory of Cabo de Gata. Guadix,Baza, and Purchena, are considerable interior towns, in the eastern part of this province,seated in valleys enclosed by the numerous ranges of hills which intersect it. Santa Fe,two leagues west of Granada, is remarkably exposed to earthquakes, which have split itscathedral in two, and laid open the cells of one of the convents; yet the citizens still inhabitand keep it in repair. Alhama is strikingly situated amid a circuit of precipitous rocks,through which dashes a rapid stream. It is frequented for the salubrity of its air, and forits medicinal springs and baths. Antequera is very ancient; filled with Roman and Moorishmonuments, and still large; the adjacent country is very fertile, and distinguished for thevariety both of its vegetable and mineral productions. Population 20,000. Ronda, {fii^. 319.) 319. capital of a wide mountain district, is sin-gularly situated on a rock witli perpendicu-lar cliffs and broken crags, tliiinigh a deepfissure in which the river flows, and sur-rounds the city on three sides. It is crossedby a stupendous bridge 110 feet in diameter,and 280 feet in height. Stairs of 350 stepslead down to the river, and gardens havebeen formed on some level projecting pointsof the precipice. The mountaineers of • Ronda are an honest, active, hardy race; and so healthy as to make it a proverb, tliat at Ronda a man is a boy at eighty. Thevicinity of Gibraltar gives tlicm great opportunities for smuggling, which they carry on inlarge bands, and in open resistance to government, without, however, incurring any impu-tation on their general loyalty. The kingdom of Seville, west of Granada, is a still finer region, and perhaps superior toany other in t
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