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Since our arrival in Andalusia I have watched faithfully for even a single example of the far-famed Andalusians, but as yet, only one good looking girl has shown up and she is surely a yankee.
  The southern Spaniards are certainly not handsome. And as for costumes, not a single fine one has as yet been seen outside of gipsy camps or the treasure vaults of the cathedrals.  
But my special quest has already been bountifully found. The Fine Arts of early moorish and spanish creation. We have been delighted hour after hour, and day after day with collections both private and public of extreme interest. Of course their is much rubbish but Spain ^[[insertion]] can [[/insertion]] still delight the sympathetic lover of natural beauty of landscape, of architecture