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these the pictures at Seville, and imagine the treat 
we have had. TI shall leave all this for Mrs. Gray to 
expatiate upon next winter. 
We now know Murillo, and rank him next to Titian, 
and in feeling and delicacy much above him. He 
could paint something besides Spanish-girl Madonnas, 
lovely as they are, and Spanish beggars, where he 
had only to copy from the streets; and whoever 
has not seen St. Elisabeth of Hungary, the Roman 
Senator and his Wife, the Guardian Angel, Moses 
striking the Rock, and its companion, the Loaves 
and Fishes, and the St. Antony of Padua, down 
to whom the Infant Christ lightly floats, encircled 
with child angels, has not yet seen the works of Mu- 
rillo. Then Velasquez, most noble, and Zurbaran 
and Ribera, and Cano, Morales, and Moro, and others 
whom I never knew anght about before. At Toledo 
we passed two days and three nights, well filled 
with sights of Old World things hardly touched 
by the later ages; and there is the grandest of cathe- 
drals ; and yet the interior of that of Seville is rather 
more satisfying. These three, Burgos, Toledo, Se- 
ville, I should place in this ascending order, or brack- 
eting the latter two. 
journey overnight brought us at sunrise into 
Andalusia, at Cordova, which we passed (to take on 
the way from Granada), and so to Seville for break- 
fast, three happy, sunny, busy days there, and then to 
Malaga, two days, and then on to this place, which we 
reached after dark, and are now enjoying our second 
day in. 
There are two hotels up here, under the Alhambra 
walls, and we are at one of them. Yesterday the road 
