Legends Of The Conquest Of Spain by Washington Irving

Author:Washington Irving [Irving, Washington]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781296236397
Google: -u80rgEACAAJ
Publisher: Creative Media Partners, LLC
Published: 2015-02-18T04:12:48+00:00

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE FOREGOING LEGEND.

THE CAVE OF HERCULES.

As the story of the necromantic tower is one of the most famous as well as least credible points in the history of Don Roderick, it may be well to fortify or buttress it by some account of another marvel of the city of Toledo. This ancient city, which dates its existence almost from the time of the flood, claiming as its founder Tubal, the son of Japhet, and grandson of Noah, has been the warrior hold of many generations, and a strange diversity of races. It bears traces of the artifices and divices of its various occupants, and is full of mysteries and subjects for antiquarian conjecture and perplexity. It is built upon a high rocky promontory, with the Tagus brawling round its base, and is overlooked by cragged and precipitous hills. These hills abound with clefts and caverns; and the promontory itself, on which the city is built, bears traces of vaults and subterraneous habitations, which are occasionally discovered under the ruins of ancient houses, or beneath the churches and convents.

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