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Title: Rambles in sunny Spain
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Ober, Frederick A(lbion), 1849- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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in its past, and pertainsto the people from whom the city was wrested four hundred yearsago. To us, indeed, the Spain of the past, of the long ago, is farmore interesting than that of to-day; for we see now merely thedecaying remnants of a once powerful nation dwelling in the habita-tions from which their ancestors drove a people in man)/ respectssuperior to themselves. Spain, like that odd crustacean the hermit-crab, dwells in the abandoned shell of another. But as to the history of Malaga; at one point, at least, it impingesupon that of the Christian world. Time was when Malaga was aflourishing place, the principal seaport of the province Granada, thesea in front active with the commerce of the Moors, and the hills and CADIZ, GIBRALTAR, AND MALAGA. 20I slopes behind covered with vineyards and gardens. Long beforethis period it was a port of call of the Phoenicians, and is said tohave its name from Malak (place of salt). Its beautiful bay, large and ;P»1 pfcp§ *r£t, i I*- * it *JL
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