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Title: Rambles in sunny Spain
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Ober, Frederick A(lbion), 1849- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ostages, by Charles V. of Spain. The first town over the Spanish line is Irun (pronounced hereEe-roori) where the Spanish customs officials make a pretence of going through your luggage. No passport is demanded, and thedetention from the officials is slight. The scenery through this sec-tion is soft and pleasing, and especially so around Hendaye and Biarritz.The distance from Irun to Madrid is 397 miles, and the fare, first class,is 7 3 pesetas; second class, ^pesetas. The nearer we approached to Spain the more valuable appearedto us our new friend the Judge. In truth, he became all but indis-pensable. We were of course well provided with guide-books, phrase-books, and Spanish grammars; but the Judge was a veritable walkingdictionary, and always had ready at hand just what we desired most 3° RAMBLES IN SUNNY SPAIN. to know. At this juncture his observations on the monetary systemof Spain were most timely, as follow below. A person can do Spain, he said, hook or crook, in a few weeks.
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—^ - ri. rij4i:. AGU VDORES. Indeed, I think a certain American lady wrote a book on Ten Daysin Spain/ which contained, by the way, more information about theauthoress than about Spain, — as was to be expected. The money you BEYOND THE PYRENEES. 31 will be called upon to deliver will be Spanish silver; gold is seldomseen, though bank-notes are extensively circulated. To an American,the monetary system of Spain is simplicity itself, but to an Englishmanit is troublesome. The peseta, a silver coin worth twenty cents, is theunit of value, and this contains four reales, or one hundred centimos.Five pesetas, or twenty realcs, equal one duro or dollar; and these withthe escudo, or half dollar, of ten realcs, comprise the current silver coins.Many local terms remain to designate coins, especially the copper.A cuarto is about half a cent, two cuartos being equal to one cent orfive centimos, while ten centimos are equal to an English penny. Thepeople have their own peculiar terms ; as, for

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