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68'r<strong>RAV</strong>ELS IN EUROPE.Thel'ock was ob~iously excavated here, no to afford scopthe fomidations, but materials for the erectio'les;" ~ndthe bases of the cones appear to impendov exterior emountain is every where, up to the bases 0with a foliage ofdwarf-oak, cork-tl'ee, and evergreen shmbs.st peaks, cov~r'edThe view of the monastery is taken' from the vicinity of the priory,which is on the opposite side of the great rav'approaching it by the Camino de la He'P,fully situated under a cliff, and hence is pel'downwards that the place posses.ses.he indeed conc1uded, a happ:y man.The gpod priorseemed, and mayHis t,able" was most plentifullycovered in its way; that ifS, with fru:it~, sweets, and farinaceous food,a11 the best in their kinds.and the service was of Englishdelft, l'ecwas elegance and decol'um. He was atestimony to the salubrity of the situa'had none of the paleness of the doisterVarions wines sparkled" on it-le deHghteevery thing English, and had covered the walls of his refectory: with highcoloureci London caricature prints, which he SBeat exultion to such persons as he understood to come from tountry,c1aiming and repeating vehemently, and with exultation, "ShakspeaShakspeare 1"The grea.t poet and .moralist is, in the èyes of the connental people, our Owlen·Spiegel; if the latter be npersonage.:From the level of the bed of the Llohregat, which, Îshere at Monistrol at the foot of the mountain,mulation of masses of dilapidation of variofol'ro, approaching a quadrangular shape"degrees with the horizon.a metapq

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