Spain of To-day: a Descriptive, Industrial, and Financial Survey of the Peninsula: With a Full Account of the Rio Tinto MinesW. Blackwood and sons, 1890 - 164 pages |
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Alicante Almaden Almansa Alvaro Alonzo Andalusia average Badajoz Barcelona beautiful Bilbao budget Burgos calcining capital cent centre Columbus copper corner Cortes cost deficits Doetsch English enterprise Europe exports favour finance five Fonda del Norte foreign French Guethary hand hematite Hendaye hill hour houses Huelva industry interest kilometres lease less London look Madrid Madrileno Mediterranean ment miles million pesetas millions sterling a-year mineral mines minutes Moorish nearly north lode Northern of Spain official open cast over-burden Paris Peninsula pesetas per kilometre port posada prosperity Pyrenees quarries Rabida rail Rio Tinto Company Roman round running Salamanca Samuel Tiquet Saragossa señorita Seville share shipped side Sierra Morena soon Spaniards Spanish Government Spanish railway station syndicate Tarragona Tharsis theatre tion tons town train Treasury tunnel Valencia village whole Zafra Zafra and Huelva
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Page 65 - One day a stranger on foot, in humble guise, but of a distinguished air, accompanied by a smull boy, stopped at the gate of the convent, and asked of the porter a little bread and water for his child. While receiving this humble refreshment, the prior of the convent...
Page 67 - I undertake the enterprise for my own crown of Castile, and will pledge my jewels to raise the necessary funds.
Page 65 - Seville, a stranger on foot, in humble guise but of lofty air, accompanied by a brightfaced boy, stopped at the gate of the convent, and asked the porter for a little bread and water for his child. While receiving this humble refreshment, the prior of the convent, Juan Perez de Marchena, happening to pass by, was struck...
Page 141 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 100 - The terraces are traversed by nearly 60 miles of railway, on which more than 30 locomotives and 750 waggons are running daily. From one end of the workings to the other is a journey by rail of seven or eight miles, curving in and out of hollows, crossing points, running up one slope and down another, and your engine all the while shrieking to signalmen at every few hundred yards.
Page 99 - A few of these are the natural hill -tops, which it has not been thought worth while to remove ; but most of them are artificial mounds formed during the operations of the mine. That towering mass of broken slate and granite in the distance was made by the Romans, whose implements and domestic utensils are found in it to the present day. That high embankment of blood-red clay and porphyry, with two lines of railway running along the top of it, is " over-burden " or barren ground removed from the...
Page 64 - Chicago an exposition to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus.
Page 78 - It is a strange example of the irony of history, that when Columbus sailed on his first voyage to America, he left behind him, within fifty or sixty miles of the fishing port he sailed from, mineral deposits which were destined to produce a more famous mine of its kind than has yet been discovered across the Atlantic.
Page 17 - Lying within a radius of ten or twelve miles from tide water, they have lent themselves readily to the cheapest possible forms of transport. Wire tramways connect the principal mines with wharves of their own, which steamers can lie alongside of and receive cargo as fast as it can be tumbled into them. Surface railways are also largely in use. In the lower parts of Bilbao the river-side is gridironed with iron rails running in from the mines.
Page 78 - The dark waters of the Rio Tinto, on which his pioneer ships floated out into the unknown ocean, owe their colour to a mountain of copper which has yielded almost as many solid millions of money as have been got out of the Comstock lode, or the Calumet and Hecla.