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 ON THE BRINK OF THE TAJO

frequent birds of prey seen hovering around the heights. Ronda was, in fact, one of the cradles of Spain's two pet professions, bull-fighting and smuggling. Her toreros and her contrabandistas have long been famous. The neighboring mountain-passes,—wild and desert places,—were favorite stages for those dramas in which the highway robber played his stirring part; and, as we finally arrive upon the pavement of the bridge across which flows the tide of city
 * ing rock into a hollow far below; this accounts for the