New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-03

sbouS have known wha. it was The reSein-
b,snce is certainly very striking, and the light
house on Europa Point seemed 10 DC lamp
held in its paws. The Lights of the city ana Tor
tifrations rose one by one, glttering along us
base. and at midnight We dropped anchor before
them. on the western sIde.
| landed Yesterday morning. Ihe mlstS'
which had followed me from England. MAJ col
lected behind the Rock and the sun, stiii hidden
bv its huge bulk, shOne upward through them,
making luminous silyery background, against
which the lofty walls and jagged ramparts oil
this tremendous natural fertilization were clear
" defined. | announced my name, AMI the
length of time | designed remaining, &C NJ
tie office on the quay. and was then allowed
to pass into the city. 4 number 81 familiar
white turbans met Iae on entering. and | could
not resist tLe temptation OF cordially SaiutIng
the owners in their own language. The town IL
long and narrow lying steeply against me Rock
The houses are white, yellow and pmA, as m
SpauisL towns. but the streets clean and welt
paved There is a square ebCdt the size OF an
ordinary buildine-lot, where sort oi market OF
dry Goods and SINAI. articles is held. The Cub
Honse Hotel occupies one side OF II, aud as
look out of my window upon it, see the top
most cliffs OF the Rock above me, threatening
TO topple down from hight Of l,5oO feet.
Nv first walk in Gibraltar was in search OF a
palm. tree. After threading the whole length
OF the town, found TWO small ones IN garden,
in the bottom of the old moat. The sun was
shining. and his rays seemed 10 fall with double
warmth on their teathery crests Three brown
Spauisrds, bare-armed. were drawing water
with pole and bucket, and filling the httlo
channels which cOnveyedit To distant vegetables.
The sea glijtered blue below; an Indian tig-tree
shaded me, but on the rock behind, an aioe
lifted its blossoming stem. some twenty feet
high, into the sunshine. To describe what
weight was lifted from my heart would seem
foolish 10 those who do not know on what little
things the whole tone OF our spirits sometimes
depends.
But if an even balance was restored yester-
day, the opposite scale kicked tue beam this
morning Nota speck of vapor blurred the spot
less crystal Of the sky, as walked along the
hanging paths of the Alameda. The sea was
dazzling ultramarine with purple luster; eve
~ crag and notch of the mountains across the
bay, every shade of brown or gray, or the green
OF grassy patches, was dawn and tinted with
pencil so exquisitely delicate as almost 10 de-
stroy tue perspective. The white houses OF Al
gociras, FIVE miles oil, appeared close at hand
little toy-town, backed by miniature hills.
Ares Hill, the ancient Abyla- in Africa, advanced
to meet this Calpe its opposing pillar, and Atlas
swept away TO the eastward, its blue becoml K
paer and paler, till the powers of vision finally
JAILED From tie southern point OF the Rock
saw the mOuntan-shore OF Spain, as far as Mala-
la and the snowy top of one OF the Sierra Ne
yada. Looking eastward 70 the horizon line Of
the Mediterranean, my sight extended SO tar, III
the wonderful clearneSs OF The air. that the con
yeXty OF the sea was plainly 10 be distinguished
the first time in my life when remarked this.
From the masthead the ocean lOOhs either Hat
or slightly cOncGye. 10 pure was the atm0-
sphere to-day, that at II O'clock the moon, al
though thin sickle, three days distant from
the sun, shOne pertt city white and clear
As lOitered in the Alameda, between thick
hedges Of eyer-blOoming geraniums, clunlps of
heotrope three feet high and luXurilnt masses
Oh ivy, around whose warm flowers the beescius-
tere,. and hummed, could only think of che voy-
ace as Il hdeOus dream. The iOg and gloom had
been in my own eyes and in my own BRAN, and
now the blessed sun, shining full in my face,
awoke me. am worshipper 0t the sun. l
took eli my hat 10 him, as ! stood there. in
wilderness "i ~.ll...,,e, crimson and purple lowers,
and let him blaze away in my face for quarter
OF an hour. And az | walked home, with my
back to him, often turned NY face from side to
side that might feel his touch on my cheek.
How man can live, who is sentenced to years
is more than | can understand.
But al this (you will sa! } gives you no picture
of Gibraltar. The Rock is so familiar to all the
world, in prints and descriptions, that find no.
thing new 10 say Of 1t, except that It is b. no
means 80 barren rock as the island OF Malta
being clothed, in many places by beautiful
groy and the greenest turf; besides have not
YET seen the rOck-gaeries, having taken pas
sage TOR Cadlz this afternoon. When return
as hope to do in twenty days after visiting Sc
vile and Granads-l shall procure permission to
view al the iortications and likewise to ascend
10 the summit. BT.