. My life among the wild birds in Spain . d from many others like it the various streamsthat join the Guadiaro can be seen sparkling as they wind throughundulating hills far below, their courses marked by bright yellowsand-banks and by sinuous lanes of crimson oleander which fadeaway into the distance. The Mediterranean and Straits of Gibraltar have the appear-ance of a great lake, the Rock rising near the hither shore likea small grey cone against a background of blue water. Thegreat height and size of the opposite Pillar of Hercules, ApesHill, comes home when thus viewed at a distance from a
. My life among the wild birds in Spain . d from many others like it the various streamsthat join the Guadiaro can be seen sparkling as they wind throughundulating hills far below, their courses marked by bright yellowsand-banks and by sinuous lanes of crimson oleander which fadeaway into the distance. The Mediterranean and Straits of Gibraltar have the appear-ance of a great lake, the Rock rising near the hither shore likea small grey cone against a background of blue water. Thegreat height and size of the opposite Pillar of Hercules, ApesHill, comes home when thus viewed at a distance from a height,also the vastness of the great tumbled mass of mountains which skirtthe Straits towards Tangier and extend southward to Tetuan andbeyond. Beyond Ceuta the distant outline of the Riff Coast canbe discerned and far, far beyond this, the magnificent chain ofblue mountains—the Atlas—capped with snow, which rear theirheads above the heat mist shimmering over the intervening region,which, to this day, is a sealed book to
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