Spring to Life/ Edith Wharton
I just came back from a trip to Colorado Springs. The beauty of the land is stunning. In the little village of Manitou Springs, I experienced a great surprise–the best water I ever tasted. The water filtrates through cracks of granite rock into the bosom of the mountains, flows into layers of limestone that carbonate […]
The Ends of the Inhabited World/Strabo
Close to the Pillars—*the Gibraltar Strait—there are two isles, one of which they call Hera’s Island; moreover, there are some who call also these isles the Pillars. Gades—*Cadiz— however, is outside the Pillars. Concerning Gades I have said only thus much, that it is about seven hundred and fifty stadia distant from Calpe—*Gibraltar—(that is, it […]
