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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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-enviable reputation of having listened to the shrieksof the heretics burned there in the first auto dafe, and setting an example that the rest of Spainwere only too quick to follow. From Italy—thescenes of St. Francis, the gentlest of mortals—wehad passed to this of his friend S. Dominic, theoriginator of the terrible Acts of Faith. If twoplaces quarrel as to possession of the house whereColumbus was born, Valladolid can safely claim topossess the one and only in which he died, for asfar as I know there is no other disputant to thehonour. Quitting the town next day our road still travelledover the interminable veldt towards the Sierra deGuadarrama : Natures barrier between Old and NewCastile. We left the main road about thirty milesafter leaving Valladolid and headed for Segovia.Evening was deepening into night when we sightedits stately Alcazar perched upon a pinnacle of rock,on three sides hanging over the dark swirling waters300 feet below. Passing through an old stone arch188
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s i;.\(,iii,->n K ( iiAiKi - I.r i;(,ii> ( A I II i:iii:a I. IN THE LAND OF THE DONS way we commenced to rise up the steep Hilltowards the town, and, as we climbed, the longline of the massive Boman aqueduct burstmajestically into view. Mounting higher we enteredinto a network of narrow streets emerging at lastin an open flaza before the doors of its solemncathedral. We slept that night in a little hotel cunninglyhidden in a narrow street, its comforts equalled onlyby the hearty reception that we received. Segovia,with her aqueduct as proof, can claim to have beenin a state of civilisation when her sister cities werebut bending to the conquerors rule. From theSierra de Fuenfria it carries the clear water to thecity, a distance of over ten miles. Unlike theAqueduct of Claudius, whose broken arches we hadpassed on the Koman Campagna, it is undamaged,and still performs its health-giving office. In cross-ing the town it has to traverse a deep valley, andforms here one of the most wo

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