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 ENGLAND'S FAMOUS ROCK

One of the main currents of trade and travel reaches Europe through the ports of England, France, and Germany; the other flows through the Gibraltar Straits and rolls on toward the Orient. The traveler who would visit Spain must therefore enter by a French or British doorway; he must either cross the Pyrenean border from the south of France, or, landing at Gibraltar, braving the stare of British guns, enter the lovely province of Andalusia with the music of "God save the Queen" echoing in his ears.

GIBRALTAR

My first impression of the land of the Hidalgo and of the Don was the never-to-be-forgotten vision of Gibraltar arising from the deep. Though dimly seen in the first flush of dawn, the rock at once impresses us a thing to be