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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 12 : (search)
Chapter 12:
Seville.
Cathedral.
Spanish School of painting.
Sir John Downie.
journey to Lisbon with contrabandists.
Cintra.
Portuguese society.
Journal.
on the 8th of October I embarked in the steamboat that plies on the river as far as Seville; and, after rather a pleasant and favorable passage,. . . . arrived in the evening at the ancient capital of Andalusia.
It is admirably situated on the banks of the Guadalquivir, in the midst of an extensive and fertile plain, and is surrounded with the ancient Moorish wall, that was so terribly defended against St. Ferdinand.
Under the Arabs, it was one of the largest and richest cities in Spain; and, on its surrender, nearly three hundred thousand Moors, it is said, emigrated to Granada, and yet did not depopulate it; so that, in 1426, it had again above three hundred thousand souls within its walls.
The circumstance that the American fleets came here, increased its wealth prodigiously, between the end of the f
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 22 : (search)