38 Voya(/e of the Novara. 



Near the garden?, towards the south, is a second quarter 

 of the city, which mostly consists of government buildings. 



On the lowest terrace, which juts furthest into the sea, 

 stands the lighthouse, on the celebrated " Europa Point." 



Gibraltar is connected with the Spanish continent by a 

 sandy neck of land, called by the Spaniards El Isfmo, and by 

 the English "the neutral ground." It runs between the 

 Mediterranean and the bay, one mile and a half in length 

 and 2700 feet in breadth. This plain, which is not more than 

 10 feet above the water, owes its origin to the formation of a 

 dune in the rocky bed of the ocean. Strong easterly gales 

 seem by degrees to have accumulated the sand on this shallow 

 run of the sea, which formerly separated Gibraltar from Spain. 



