Excerpt from Spain of to-Day: A Narrative Guide to the Country of the Dons With Suggestions for Travellers

With all the beauties of the south and the towns of the coast in mind, it is, nevertheless, the note of sombreness that strikes loudest in my memories of Spain, and this was gained only by pursuing the course which our most excellent courier mapped out for us, through the heart of the desolate country. By comparison the brighter parts of the Peninsula seemed all the more attractive, but cannot entirely blot from the mind the vast wastes of the north. There, in appearance, the people are akin to the land, swarthy, rugged, burned brown as the soil, and not even picturesquely attractive. The bright, care free faces belong to the south and the coast provinces, and it is there one should confine his travels if he would not be depressed by the sight of a wasting people.

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