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'SEVILLE, THE GU ADALQUIVER, ETC. 59yet pre.dominates,is admirably designed for camfort in this c1imate:but.m,any streets here arc too narrow' for carriages.1t ls said that thi8,eity contains eight btwdred noble families. The Guadalquiver rises formidablyinJhese precipcts. In the last year (1784) it rose ta the heightof four feetin sonle of the streets, marks being made in commemorati9nofthe ,cvent. The/communication across this grcat river' is judicjouslyby a bridge ·of boats.The amphitheatre at Santi Ponce (Italica) is an abject ofcuriosity tostrangers. ' The Torre de Oro is a valuable specimen ·of Roman architecturein Hs way..The lover~t' paÏ1\1ting. ,aIso w4ll be pleased in Seville. He will seeamong mucb other interesoting matter the Descent from the Cross byCampuu@, whieh tlle celebrated Murillo passed the leisure boursof hislife in admiring~ and at the foot ·of whieh he ls,. byhisexpœssdesire~burjed. But indeed the Spanish sehool never has acquired or possessedthat interest or Î11vestigation ta whieh its merits entitle it.To look outthe n~aster-pieces of art here, is somewhat of a task, and the disadvanw:tages and toils of the traveller eool the zeal of the amateur.twenty hospit~ls;Here areand the Humber of~eggars, well dressed and in rags,i~ .incalculable. Having been banished from Madrid and Cadiz by thepolice, they havecpncentrated themselves for their flnalstau(t hete,until the time tllai they shaH be put to flight by a \,orldlOuse .powbuilding. 13utthC.Y seem determined ,ta c1ing to theü' darling ()CCllpationeven witha p~rting fondness; an attachrnent which this prQfessümseeIIls ta posse~sin the breast ofutan \Vith a .finnness to which no othercan present compètition. In aIl the e.roneous proceedings .of this geperallywcI1-intending government, we still see here, as elsewhere, theprescription.applied to the symptom.In a court adjoining to the cathedral of this dty, strangers haH\1 2