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Title: The Argosy
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Wood, Henry, Mrs., 1814-1887 Wood, Charles W. (Charles William), b. 1850?
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Publisher: London (etc.) R. Bentley (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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hem in any way. They are beautiful inthemselves, with a beauty I have scarcely seen equalled in any wallselsewhere. Even the wonderful walls of Wisby, in Gotland, with all 48 Letters from Majorca, their antiquity, all their remarkable gateways and ruined towers,scarcely equal these of Alcudia. The walls of Wisby, with all theircharm, are grey and cold with the influence of Northern skies and aNorthern atmosphere. They appeal to the imagination chiefly byforce of time and circumstance : a somewhat indirect influence. But the walls of Alcudia have an Eastern glamour about them.You are at once enwrapped in golden visions and dreams of orientalmagnificence and splendour. They are none the less powerful thathere you are face to face with death and decay ; with the poverty of asmall insular town of great antiquity, whose inhabitants probably forthe most part live from hand to mouth, from day to day, literallyneeding the clause in the Prayer of all prayers : Give us this day OUR DAILY BREAD.
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Walls of Alcudia. Here, too, we have a double set ot walls : Roman and mediaeval.The moat between them is dried up and withered. Its uses have passedaway as completely as the busy hands and brains that centuries agoplanned them out and brought them to perfection. There were giantsin the land in those days, even as in days before them : the days of thePyramids, of the Walls of Babylon, the Tomb of Mausoleus, and allthe wonders of the world. There always have been giants, it seemsto me, on the earth. In our own day I suppose their strength lies inthe wonders of science and invention. Wisbys walls—to conclude the comparison—look out upon acold and barren land, upon the pale waters of the Baltic. Theseof Alcudia look forth upon fertile plains ; upon distant waters runningcalmly up into the land in creeks and harbours ; upon chains of hillsundulating and tower-crowned; upon the broad Bay, the fair andflashing waters of the Mediterranean. For these are Southern skies,

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