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thousand, they must offer great varieties of soil and situation. An 

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and the book when published would be a useful guide for future 

 explorers. If an English botanist should then be disposed to visit 

 the North of Spain in 1859, he will probably find the steamers 

 either from Liverpool or from Southampton on a better footing than 

 they are at present, and there would doubtless be some improve- 

 ment in those from Bayonne. At Santander such a traveller 

 would stay two or perhaps three days, visiting the Pena di Cas- 

 tillo, the sands at the mouth of the harbour, those towards the 

 lighthouse, and the shore of the Bay of Biscay for two or three 

 miles west of the lighthouse. The railway would then take him 

 to Las Caldas : I doubt if he would find it worth while to stop 

 before reaching that place, as he is likely to find little which would 

 not be obtained either at Santander or at Las Caldas. At Las 



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sandstone of the gorge, on the limestone to the east, and on the 

 loamy wooded hills to the west of the station. An interesting 

 walk from Las Caldas would be across the plain of Las Corales to 



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gnificent gorge leads to Eeinosa. 



this gorge would be worth a day's examination. Above this, I be- 

 lieve I can add nothing to what I have aLready said as to localities. 

 I^inosa might be the head-quarters for visiting three mountain 

 masses : the Sierras Albas, the Sierra Sejo, and a third range to 

 the east of the road, whose name I forget, but which, though 

 perhaps not so high as the others, is yet sufficiently elevated to 

 preserve some snow in its hollows throughout the year. 





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