The belles of this city, he says, are the Lancashire witches of Spain; and by reason of them, rather than the sea-shore or the Sierra Morena, "sweet Cadiz is the first spot in the creation."

That of the infidels lay in the neighborhood of Baeza, and extended to the Sierra Morena.

"At every turn, Morena's dusky height Sustains aloft the battery's iron load, And, far as mortal eye can compass sight, The mountain-howitzer, the broken road, The bristling palisade, the foss o'erflowed, The stationed band, the never-vacant watch, The magazine in rocky durance stand, The holster'd steed beneath the shed of thatch, The ball-piled pyramid, the ever-blazing match.

Cabral was well pleased with this promising beginning, and immediately appointed Gonzalo Gil Barbosa as factor, who had been assistant to Aries Correa, giving him Laurenço Morena as clerk, and Madera de Alcusia as interpreter, with four of the banished men as servants.

aun en el sueño veía cruzar, perderse y tornar de nuevo una mujer, una mujer morena y hermosa, que llevaba la joya de oro y de pedrería; una mujer, sí, porque ya no era la Virgen que yo adoro y ante quien me humillo, era una mujer, otra mujer como yo, que me miraba y se

On the banks of the Baetisthe modern Guadalquiver,and under the woods that crown the southern slopes of the Sierra Morena, lies the beautiful and famous city of Cordova.

As the landscape began to grow distinct in the gray, cloudy dawn, we saw before us Cordova, with the dark range of the Sierra Morena rising behind it.

Leaving Cordova, our road followed the Guadalquivir, along the foot of the Sierra Morena, which rose dark and stern, a barrier to the central table-lands of La Mancha.

Other flocks are led in the same season from great distances to the heights of the Sierra Morena, where the vegetation is remarkably favorable to improvement of the wool.

The demon bore him with arrow-like speed to the brink of a precipice in the Sierra Morena.

It was entitled "Ximena; or, The Battle of the Sierra Morena, and Other Poems.

This drove Cardenio mad, and he haunted the Sierra Morena or Brown Mountain for about six months, as a maniac with lucid intervals.

Dorothea also left her home, dressed in boy's clothes, and concealed herself in the Sierra Morena or Brown Mountain.

The river Tinto rises in Sierra Morena, and empties itself into the Mediterranean, near Huelva, having the name of Tinto given it from the tinge of its waters, which are as yellow as a topaz, hardening the sand and petrifying it in a most surprising manner.

" This brave officer, who was only twenty-eight years of age, had been eight years in the service; he had received the cross of the Legion of Honor at the Champ de Mai, as a reward for the services which be had performed at Talavera de la Reina, Sierra Morena, Saragossa, Montmiraill, Champaubert, and Montéreau; he was present, also, at the too deplorable day of Waterloo; he was then ensign-bearer of his regiment.

Pubio y morena.

Pubio y Morena.

Pubio y morena.

Pubio y Morena.

He is the same to this age as if he had absolutely wandered over the plains of Castile and watched in the Sierra Morena.

ALMADEN (9), a town on the northern slope of the Sierra Morena, in Spain, with rich mines of quicksilver.

SIERRA MORENA, a mountain chain in South Spain, forming the watershed between the valleys of the Gaudiana (N.) and Guadalquivir (S.); has valuable deposits of lead, silver, quicksilver, and other metals.

From here they scattered, eager for knowledge, along the coasts of Africa, through the schools of Tunis, Cairo, Bagdad, Cufa, and even to India and China, in order to gather inspiration and records; and the poetry sung on the slopes of the Sierra Morena flew from lyre to lyre, as far as the valleys of the Caucasus, to excite the ardor for pilgrimages.