The Alhambra and the Kremlin: The South and the North of Europe
CHAPTER II.
OUT OF FRANCE INTO SPAIN.—THE BASQUE PROVINCES.
Biarritz.—Chateau Eugenie.—Dangerous Coast.—Breakwater.—The Virgin’s Partiality.—Bathing Grounds.—Couriers.—Antanazio.—His Honesty and Zeal.—Crossing the Boundary.—Island of Conference.—Spanish Courtesy.— The Basque Provinces.—Peculiar Customs.—Ancestry.—The Language.— Spanish Stupidity.—La Fayette.—St. Sebastian.—Duke of Wellington’s Sack of the City.—Bull-ring.—Likeness of the Country to Switzerland.— Physique of the Inhabitants.—Productions.—Industries.—Primogeniture.— Tolasa.—Vittoria.—Wellington’s Victory.—Miranda.—Roderick, the last King of the Goths
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