The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-05-27
GIBRALTAR.
Sights That nre 10 be Seen mt the Famous
STRONGHOLD.

Military discipline is here the great order
Of the day. Never for one moment can you
forget the ruling spirit. You dare not pro-
duce pencil and notebook till your sketch
ing pass is duly signed and countersigned,
and even that is only given for limited
period, and with the proviso that you must
make no drawing of any fertilization, Gas if
you could omit the one characteristic of the
place. At every turn you come on new
batteries, great guns and mortars, with their
thousand hard, black eyes, keeping watch
and ward. Deaths playthings everywhere.
The very gardens yielding only grapeshot
and other Dead Sea fruit Beside the grace.
full flower vases are heaped up great pyra-
mids of cannon balls; fixed bayonets CLEAN
beneath the spiked aloes; tall plumes of
grasses wave over plumed bonnets, and
scarlet blossoms resolve themselves into tar
tans as first one, then another well-known
regiment marches down with pipes playing,
for there is field day on the parade ground
in as picturesque spot MS you are likely to
find, and Spaniards and Moors, Jews and
Britons are among the spectators, to say
nothing OF Rock scorpions, rs English chill
dren born on sold Glib are called. Doubt
less, also, the Barbary apes are looking
down on US from their haunts among the
cliffs, where they still find refuge, being
protected by stringent laws. They are tail.
less, of course, as their name implies. Pooi
humble-looking creatures, yet more precious
than oil their long-tailed brethren, inasmuch
as they are the sole representatives of the
monkey tribe still existing in Europe. They
are found, however, in vast numbers on the
coast Of Barbary; and this handful on the
Rock seems to corroborate the story of the
former union of the two continents. It
would seem that the making of the Phoeni-
clan Canal had cut of the retreat of this lit
lie garrison, isolating them from their fel.
lows. But, though they alone remain as
living proofs OF the time when Europe and
Africa were one, there are wonderful caves
in the rock where bones of elephants and
rhinoceroses, leopards and hyenas, lie
bleaching together, as they have lain for
countless centuries; strange memorials of
still more remote ages, when they and their
fellows were free to wander of large through
Spanish and italian forests, and thence pass
undisturbed to Calais and across the dry
land to Dover, there to leave their old bones
for the wonder and ediication of curious
and inquisitive human beings in this nine.
teenth century. The caves are not all an,
tediluvian tombs. Some have been homei
Of the living, who have sought an asylum il
times Of danger.
One of the most interesting of these rocl
dwellings is known as Martins Cave; it's
only entrance is from the actual face Of the
precipice, the perpendicular cliff towering
700 feet above it, while an equally precipi-
tous wall of natural and artificial fortifca-
ton lies between it and the calm blue sea
below. The only access to this cave is along
steep and dangerous rocky lodge, scarcely
TO be called path, whence one false step
would hurl you through midair to find your
rest in the quiet waters of the Mediterra.
mean.