Inspired by ford’s “ hand-book for travellers in spain .” by GEORGE BORROW London : printed for private circulation 1913...

In 1845 Richard Ford published his Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain and Readers at Home [2 Vols. 8vo.], a work which still commands attention, and the compilation of which is said to have occupied its author for more than sixteen years.  In conformity with the wish of Ford (who had himself favourably reviewed The Bible in Spain ) Borrow undertook to produce a study of the Hand-Book for The Quarterly Review .  The following Essay was the result. But the Essay, brilliant as it is, was not a ‘Revi

Before we proceed to point out the objects best worth seeing in the Peninsula, many of which are to be seen there only, it may be as well to mention what is not to be seen: there is no such loss of time as finding this out oneself, after weary chace and wasted hour.  Those who expect to find well-garnished arsenals, libraries, restaurants, charitable or literary institutions, canals, railroads, tunnels, suspension-bridges, steam-engines, omnibuses, manufactories, polytechnic galleries, pale-ale

‘In the ninth century, the Normans or Northmen made piratical excursions on the W. coast of Spain.  They passed, in 843, from Lisbon up to the straits and everywhere, as in France, overcame the unprepared natives, plundering, burning, and destroying.  They captured even Seville itself, September 30, 844, but were met by the Cordovese Kalif, beaten, and expelled.  They were called by the Moors Majus , Madjous , Magioges (Conde, i. 282), and by the early Spanish annalists Almajuzes .  The root has