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much beauty there, but no more than can be found at La Granja and other places, even Madrid which has been most disrespectfully described, is in many ways, in its location and environs, comparable with Granada.
Seville too, has been held up as the center of gay Spanish life! If what we saw [[insertion]] there [[/insertion]] is gaiety then let my fate be sorrow. And Spanish pride has been sung about for centuries, but instead of pride, I would say the predominating characteristic of the people is ignorance. The masses seem certainly to be not only ignorant and dull but also stupid and lazy. The railways which have been so seriously criticized,