Excerpt from Discoveries in Every-Day Europe: Vagrant Notes of a Rapid Journey

Most people think that the Rock of Gibraltar, as one of the Pillars of Hercules, guards the straits which bear its name. It does not, but lies well within, invisible from the Atlantic, across the bay from the little Spanish town of Algeciras. Cape Spartel, on the African side of the straits, is a true pillar.

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