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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ...passing on the one side the batteries which protect the entrance of the harbour, you will admire the wild beauty of the English cemetery, where rise in the midst of broken masses of rock the graves of several officers who were killed in the Carlist wars, and having finally reached the dungeons of the Castillo, your eye will embrace at one glance the whole of Saint Sebastian and its environs. An amphitheatre of hills, which soon become sufficiently elevated to merit the title of mountains, curves in a semicircle before you, stretching on the left hand into the sea, where it terminates in the cliffs of Mount Ulia, while to the right it extends to the lighthouse and the rocks of Mount Igueldo. A narrow and low tongue of land, which is detached from the continent, separates into two very nearly equal parts the basin or harbour, which is about two miles broad and extends three quarters of a mile inland, widening a little before it reaches Mount Orgullo. This is the point of land on which Saint Sebastian is built. To the east, at the foot of the ramparts of the town, you see the mouth of the Urumea, whose winding course can be traced till it disappears at a projecting point of the valley, where it turns in the direction of Asti-garaga. The actual roadstead is on the other side, and here it presents only a narrow channel towards the sea, being protected by the advanced rocks of Mount Orgullo, the island of Santa Clara, and the chain of rocks which connect the latter with Mount Igueldo. A magnificent beach of fine sand borders this channel in a semicircle which is only interrupted by the rocky point on which stood before the late wars the chapel of La Antigua. This beach, which merges into the sea by a scarcely perceptible slope, is every summer the...
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- PublisherWentworth Press
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1363896385
- ISBN 13 9781363896387
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages388
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