The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-05-21
Interesting Description Of the Rock of Glib.
galslr.

A correspondent Of the Buffalo Com
merc,nL Advertiser, writing from the Rock
OF Gibraltar soys:
The British Lion, whca it took Cibral
tar t. Itself at j threw Tarita to Spsiu,
admirably initiated that royal beast OF
Asp, WHO made q like division Of spoIis
among the contestant beasts, taking the
chict share to himself. Standing a. il
G3cs, at The traits, aal comnaDljuA their
entrance, it is an important adjunct 70
the power Of England II is doubtful
whether she would long retain her India
possessions If she had not the cro1.ro. Of
thi. gateway 10 the east Long msy shc
hold it against all her foes, and long may
she continue to govern the empire whose
masses have no capacity for self govern
mcut, aud who have no government by
their chiefs ft to be called Legitimate au-
thorifq Probably the greatest piece Of
a5libostcriog perpctrated ia the modern
ages ras Hn2lsnd's conquest Of thclndles;
ard although Give and Hastings Ic,t
bloody records behind them, aud 81
t4ough the conQueror has fallen far short
If her high duty to India, ii cannot be
/ qea.t'oaldtl at The world is the bette. an
| happier for the forcibIe possession by the
| des2cndents If the great Norman fIlibus
| ter, who laid in race the foundations Of
/ the best civilizations the world over knew.
| This general proposition, | maintain. Is
firm as the Rock Of Gibraltar" and
this brings me to show how we'll fortified
| il is. for many nan has rounded bis rhe-
! toric with this flourish, without. the
| slightest idea Of the strength he claimed
! for his position.
! Imagine, then, arock about three miles
10 length and mile in width at the
widest point, aud seventeen hundred
/ feet in hight at it, highest elevation,
towering up between tho Spanish and
African coasts aprarently for 40 other
purpose than to give some pirate the con-
trol Of the passage, which gives the west
communication with the east Then
Imagine it almost precipitous on the side
towards the Mediterranean, towering at
the lowest point, at least thousand feet
above the level of the sea, against which
the combined navies of the world would
be as imp0tent as the waves which break
at their base. Then picture to yourself th1
side which forms the harbor-thls being
little lake which makes around the wes.
tern side Of tho rock in:erposing between
IL and the Spanish coast-from a poiut
30 feet above the waters edge, fortified
bv all the defcnces which masonry and
engineering can devise, and these fortlf'
cations mounted by guns at least every
ten wards, and repeated batteries along
the side of the rock tor at least half IT.
hight; then SUI id to these immenst
galleries excavateG for more than ;
nlle in the solid rock itself, through whict
an army OF mounted cavalry could ride
out OF which open frequent port holes
at each Of which is mounted twenty
four FOUNDER, these galleries leading t.
immense magazines the latter not exhib
tied 10 the pubiic); then faucy force'o
nearly four thousand troops for genera
defense, having IN charge these eigh
. hundred mounted guns, and the garrison
provisioned fur five years siege, and yo,
will have some idea Of the strength 0
; this fortidcatlon aud conclude with nj
that upon no principle vet known tn tn
world in the science OF gunnery can Gih
rsltar ever be taken by force. As III
terms of peace, Great Britain may be con,
PEELED by some treaty to yield to Spain a
| the DIGESTION Of France, but by attack Q
! siege, never In one other wa il ma
! be lost to England Gonueetol by a
!. isthmus ot about a quarter Of a mile i
, y dth with the Spanish man land.
= could ba gained TO Spain by treachefy
: The seduction from their ldehty afa fe
!. sepsinela, might possioy give en iayze
0 lng array possession Of Gibraltar,
; Taeiscenery about the rock is piosur'
!. asoue 10 tho extreme. The town itself
aauddls of brown houses, st the foot ,