. Wild Spain (Espan?a agreste): records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun; natural history and exploration. Natural history; Hunting; Game and game-birds. TEOUT AND TEOUTING IN SPAIN. 179. Santand^e (Peovincia). The Province of Santander, hardly less wild and moun- tainous than the Asturias, pre- sents somewhat similar condi- tions of water, fish, and sport. The Cantabrian range, extend- ing from Pyrenees to Atlantic, the common southern boundary of all the Biscayan provinces, attains in Santander some of its greatest elevations, including the celebrated Picos de Europa (9,000 feet), the home
. Wild Spain (Espan?a agreste): records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun; natural history and exploration. Natural history; Hunting; Game and game-birds. TEOUT AND TEOUTING IN SPAIN. 179. Santand^e (Peovincia). The Province of Santander, hardly less wild and moun- tainous than the Asturias, pre- sents somewhat similar condi- tions of water, fish, and sport. The Cantabrian range, extend- ing from Pyrenees to Atlantic, the common southern boundary of all the Biscayan provinces, attains in Santander some of its greatest elevations, including the celebrated Picos de Europa (9,000 feet), the home of the Spanish bear and chamois. The trend of the land dips gradually from these inland heights towards the sea: yet even on the coast the scenery is savage and grand, some of the altitudes being very great. The view looking across the magnificent harbour of Santander recalls in the " Sunny South " the scenery of Arctic Norway, with all the fantastic tracery of snow-mountains and jagged peaks vividly reflected in the unruffled breadths of the fjord. The rivers, of course, reflect the characteristics of the land. Born of the mountain and the snow-field, they come leaping and surging seawards, dancing to their own wild music, as they crush through narrow gorges, by crag and hanging wood, hurrying ever northward towards the Biscayan sea. The angler's path along their banks is no made road : often for miles, ay, leagues, he may be con- strained to follow the goatherds' upland path—a camino de perdices in native phrase—and only able to gaze down, like Tantalus, on tempting streams, perhaps close beneath, yet far beyond his reach. Here, as elsewhere, success, we found, was not to be had for the wooing, nor at the first time of asking. Bivers that offered fair promise—beautiful waters, such as Besaya and Saja, embedded amidst ilex and chestnut, where moss- n 2. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced fo
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