PART I. 

 TOPOGRAPHY OF GIBRALTAR. 



" The moon is up j by Heaven ! a lovely eve. 



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Through Calpe's straits survey the steepy shore; 

 Europe and Afric on each other gaze : 

 Lands of the dark-eyed maid and dusky Moor 

 Alike beheld beneath pale Hecate's blaze. 

 How softly on the Spanish shore she plays, 

 Disclosing rock, and slope, and forest brown, 

 Distinct, though darkening with her waning phase; 

 But Mauritania's giant-shadows frown, 



From mountain-cliff to coast descending sombre down." 



BYRON. 



