. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . , with. A GRAXADIXO. its successive foreign invasions and occupations, havematerially modified the racial characteristics of the Spanishpeople. The Latin element still predominates, both in typeand tongue: but Semitic, Aryan, and even Turanianstrains are all present. The Spanish nation of to-day iscomposed rather of a congeries of heterogeneous peoplesand provinces, once separate kingdoms, and still incapableof coherence or of fusion into a concrete whole, than ofsections of a single race. Compare the
. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . , with. A GRAXADIXO. its successive foreign invasions and occupations, havematerially modified the racial characteristics of the Spanishpeople. The Latin element still predominates, both in typeand tongue: but Semitic, Aryan, and even Turanianstrains are all present. The Spanish nation of to-day iscomposed rather of a congeries of heterogeneous peoplesand provinces, once separate kingdoms, and still incapableof coherence or of fusion into a concrete whole, than ofsections of a single race. Compare the sturdy and indus-trious, albeit somewhat phlegmatic, Galician, the happydespised bondsman, the hewer of w^ood and drawer of ANDALUCIA AND HER MOUNTAIN-BARRIERS. 5 water of the Peninsula, with the gay and careless Anclaluzwho spurns and derides him : or the fiery temperament ofaristocratic Castile and Navarre with the commercialinstincts of Catalonia and the north-east. Probably themost perfect example of natural nobility is afforded by thepeasant proprietor of pastoral Leon; then there is a pelt
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