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The Innocents Abroad

CHAPTER VII
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The other, the great Rock of Gibraltar, was yet to come.

The ancients considered the Pillars of Hercules the head of navigation and the end of the world.

The information the ancients didn't have was very voluminous.

Even the prophets wrote book after book and epistle after epistle, yet never once hinted at the existence of a great continent on our side of the water; yet they must have known it was there, I should think.
In a few moments a lonely and enormous mass of rock, standing seemingly in the center of the wide strait and apparently washed on all sides by the sea, swung magnificently into view, and we needed no tedious traveled parrot to tell us it was Gibraltar.

There could not be two rocks like that in one kingdom.
The Rock of Gibraltar is about a mile and a half long, I should say, by 1,400 to 1,500 feet high, and a quarter of a mile wide at its base.


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