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Title: En route; a descriptive automobile tour through nine countries & over nineteen great passes of Europe
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Trevor, Roy
Subjects: Europe -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : E. Stanford
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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giving the desolatesurroundings the appearance of fire, as thoughthe ruddy ground was heated by an invisiblefurnace. From Segovia our way led across barren moorsand misty hills, climbing slowly till it reached thesummit of the Guadarrama Pass. A lion carved instone was erected here in commemoration of thecompletion of the road by Ferdinand VI., fourhundred odd years ago, and there it still crouches,5000 feet above the sea, gazing tranquilly upon theimmense plains of New Castile, 2500 feet beneath,a perfect sea of land, an unending ocean without aship to relieve its boundless horizon. In the centreof this solitude lies Madrid, the youngest of thecapitals of Spain, her white palaces rising on ahillside like an oasis in a desert. An easy road leadsdownwards from the summit and passes through thelittle village of Guadarrama bringing us to theplains. Leaving the great mass of the Escorial onour right, we hurried on towards Madrid and toosoon were lost in its busy traffic. Madrid is too100
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I UK «,»riKT I l.(M>l Klll.ri:(;n> ( a rii i;i>n.\L IN THE LAND OF THE DONS modern both in style and taste and seems almostout of place in Spain ; she has no crumbling ruins orancient monuments, only her position above theinterminable desert, gives her a certain dignity ; buthappy in her possession of the famous PradoGallery, she can claim a position in Art equalalmost to any other centre of Europe. At Madrid we shod Mercedes with new tyres, andalthough we carried five spare outer-covers, wedecided to increase the reserve to seven. Threewere placed on the canopy, two were strapped tothe driving side, and for the remaining two, werigged up, w^ith the help of wooden rods and cord, akind of grating above the luggage at the back, andon to this we lashed the two tyres. Inner tubes wehad in galore, about twenty being stowed in variousplaces about the car. Also we made preparations forcarrying six gallon-tins of petrol upon the tool-box,and six more in the tyre circle behind ; thu

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