[Gutenberg 43045] • George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 3 (of 3)

Excerpt from The Complete Works of George Eliot, Vol. 3: George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals

Are you astonished to see our whereabouts? We left Biarritz for San Sebastian, where we stayed Letter, three days; and both there and all our m3, m way to Barcelona our life has been a m' 67� succession of delights. We have had perfect weather, blue skies, and a warm sun. We travelled from San Sebastian to Saragossa, where we passed two nights; then to Lerida for one night, and yesterday to Barcelona. You know the scenery from San Sebastian to Alsasua, through the lower Pyrenees, because it lies on the way to Burgos and Madrid. At Alsasua we turned off through Navarre into Aragon, seeing famous Pampeluna, looking as beautiful as it did ages ago amongst the grand hills. At Saragossa the scene was thoroughly changed: all through Aragon, as far as we could see, I should think the country resembles the highlands of Central Spain. There is the most striking effect of bills, flanking the plain of Saragossa, I ever saw. They are of palish clay, washed by the rains into undu lating forms, and some slight herbage upon them makes the shadows of an exquisite blue.

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