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Title: Greatest wonders of the world
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, d. 1930
Subjects: Curiosities and wonders Landscapes
Publisher: New York, The Christian Herald
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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g for differentsteamers, or come over to see the place. Here an invalidmight stay, imbibing health from the fine air and sunshine,and never be weary of the ever changing diorama. Inevery direction delightful walks wind along the cliffsthrough groves of aloes and prickly-pear, or descend intolittle sandy coves full of beautiful shells. Behind thetown, a fine old aqueduct strides across the valley, and be-yond it the wild moors begin at once sweeping backwardsto a rugged chain of mountains. Into the gorges of thesemountains we rode one day, and most delightful they are,clothed in parts with magnificent old cork-trees, whilein the depths of a ravine, overhung with oleander andrhododendron, is a beautiful waterfall. It was with real regret that we left Algeciras and madethe short voyage across the bay to Gibraltar, where we in-stantly found ourselves in a place as unlike Spain as it ispossible to imagine. Upon the wharf you are assailed bya clamour of English-speaking porters and boatmen.
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\ THE ROCK OF GIBRALTAR I41 Passing the gates, you come upon a barrack-yard swarmingwitii tall British soldiers, looking wonderfully bright andhandsome, after the insignificant figures and soiled, shabbyuniforms of the Spanish army. Hence the WaterportStreet opens, the principal thoroughfare of the town,though from its insignificant shops, with English names,and its low public-houses, you have to look up at the stripof bright blue sky above, to be reminded that you are notin an English seaport. Just outside the principal town, between it and thesuburb of Europe, is the truly beautiful Alameda, an im-mense artificial garden, where endless gravel paths windthrough labyrinths of geraniums and coronella and banksof flame-coloured ixia, which are all in their full blaze ofbeauty under the March sun, though the heat causes themto wither and droop before May. During our stay atGibraltar, it has never ceased to surprise us that thisAlameda, the shadiest and pleasantest place open to thepublic

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