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Title: The innocents abroad;
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: Hartford, American publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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he air, and a cheer wentlip! She was beautiful be-fore—she was radiant now.Many a one on our decksknew then for the first timehow tame a sight his coun-trys fiag is at home comparedto what it is in a foreign land.To see it is to see a visionof home itself and all its idols, and feel a thrill that would stira very river of sluggish blood ! We were approaching the famed Pillars of Hercules, andalready the African one, Apes Hill, a grand old mountainwith summit streaked with granite ledges, was in sight. Theother, the great E.ock of Gibraltar, was yet to come. Theancients considered the Pillars of Hercules the head of navi-gation and the end of the world. The information theancients didnt have was very voluminous. Even the prophetswrote book after book and epistle after epistle, yet never oncehinted at the existence of a great continent on our side of thewater; yet they must have known it was there, I should think.In a few moments a lonely and enormous mass of rock, BEAUTIFUL STRANGER.
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THE EOCK OF GIBRALTAR. 65 standing seemingly in the centre of the wide strait and appar-ently washed on all sides by the sea, swung magnificently intoview, and we needed no tedious traveled parrot to tell us itwas Gibraltar. There could not be two rocks like that in onekingdom. The Rock of Gibraltar is about a mile and a half long, Ishould say, by 1,400 to 1,500 feet high, and a quarter of amile wide at its base. One side and one end of it come aboutas straight up out of the sea as the side of a house, the otherend is irregular and the other side is a steep slant which anarmy would find very difficult to climb. At the foot of thisslant is the walled town of Gibraltar—or rather the townoccupies part of the slant. Every where—on hillside, in theprecipice, by the sea, on the heights,—every where you chooseto look, Gibraltar is clad with masonry and bristling withguns. It makes a striking and lively picture, from whatsoeverpoint you contemplate it. It is pushed out into the sea onth

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