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Title: Impressions of Spain in 1866
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Herbert of Lea, Mary Elizabeth Herbert, Baroness, 1822-1911
Subjects: Spain -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Bentley
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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s think it invidious if weventure on the opinion that their beautiful andbecoming dress has a great deal to do with this,just as, in the East, every turbaned Turk orbmnoused Arab would make a perfect picture.Dress your Oriental in one of Pooles best fittingcoats and trousers, and give him a chimney-pothat, and where would be his beauty ? In the sameway, if—which good taste forefend—the Spanishladies come to imagine that a bonnet stuck onthe back of the head, and every colour in therainbow, is prettier than the flowing black robeand softly folded lace mantilla, shading modestlytheir bright dark eyes and hair, they will find, totheir cost, that their charm has vanished for ever.Nothing more remained to be seen or done inCadiz but to purchase some of the beautifiil mats 94 CADIZ. which are its great industry, and which are madeof a flat reed or junco, growing in the neigh-bourhood ; and these the kind and good-naturedEnglish consul undertook to forward to them,when ready, to England.
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h/^^.i^T^X^ -^^^gS Ghahia, Seville. SEVILLE. 95 CHAPTER YI. SEVILLE. Armed with sundry letters of introduction sentthem from Madrid, our travellers started by early train for Seville, the amiable Canon L having given them a five oclock mass before starting, inhis interesting old circular church dedicated toS. Filippo Neri, he being one of the Oratorians.They passed by Xeres, famous for its sherrycellars, called bodegas, supplying more wineto England than to all the rest of the world puttogether, and for its Carthusian convent, onceremarkable for its Zurbaranpictures, the greaterportion of which have now followed the sherryto the British Isles; then by Alcala, noted forits delicious bread, with which it supplies thewhole of Seville, for its Moorish castle and beau-tiful river Aira, the waters of which, after flowinground the walls of the little town, are carried byan aqueduct to Seville ; and so on and on, throughorange and olive groves, and wheat plains, and 96 SEVILLE, vineyards, til

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