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CHAPTER XXXIII.

 

CADIZ AND SEVILLE.

 

Voyage to Cadiz — Landing — The City — Its Streets — The Women of Cadiz — Embarkation for Seville — Scenery of the Guadalquivir — Custom House Examination — The Guide — The Streets of Seville — The Giralda — The Cathedral of Seville — The AlcazarMoorish Architecture — Pilate's House — Morning View from the Giralda — Old Wine — Murillos — My Last Evening in Seville.

 

"The walls of Cadiz front the shore.
And shimmer o'er the sea."

R. H. Stoddard.

 

"Beautiful Seville!
Of which I've dreamed, until I saw its towers
In every cloud that hid the setting sun."

George H. Boker.

 

Seville, November 10, 1852.

I Left Gibraltar on the evening of the 6th, in the steamer Iberia. The passage to Cadiz was made in nine hours, and we came to anchor in the harbor before day-break. It was a cheerful picture that the rising sun presented to us. The long white front of the city, facing the East, glowed with a bright rosy lustre, on a ground of the clearest blue. The tongue of land on which Cadiz stands is low, but the houses are lifted by the heavy sea-wall which encompasses them. The main-land consists of a range of low but graceful hills, while in the southeast the mountains of Ronda rise at some distance. I went immediately on shore, where my carpet-bag was seized upon