The Journals of Washington Irving

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Excerpt from The Journals of Washington Irving: From July, 1815, to July, 1842 This old historic town was the site of Wm victory on June 21, 1813, over the French Peninsularthere had fallen snow road winds at foot of precipices pass thro' Corvo poor village shabby houses with arms on them Castilian pride men with old brown cloaks thrown round shoulders hidalgos see them through gateways enter on plains of Castile snow lying on them pass among spires of the Iberian Mountains plains among mountains, high and cold but sun comes out hot villages shabby houses with arms over doors hidalgos plains with sheep muleteers peasants all in dirty brown mantillas. Pass in sight of Mount Oca covered with clouds arrive at Burgos about one buildings with long galleries moresques streets spacious idle houses with grated window between small windows great doors men lounging about in great brown mantles woman in scarlet at grate of window lower part of houses dirty and desolate for miles huge rambling inns with bedroom within bed room no fireplaces braziers under the table mats on the ¿oor. Women long, brown, handsome faces long plaited braids of hair. Cathedral of Burgos rich tower interior great expense of workmanship choir surrounded by brass pating tombs of saints statues ly ing in odour of sanctity one in right-hand chapel under picture of Virgin and child by Murillo. Old verger a sacristan whose cough resounds through the cathedral rich carving round the choir our Saviour's history figure in red clock strikes the hour several buildings in ruins fine guard two bridges curious gateway. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.