Lomas, John, traveller in Spain · London : A. and C. Black · leaf 132
ponsor,built by himself, in fact, in order to find favour in theeyes of a fair Segovian maiden, and paid for with char-acteristic womanly requiting. It is, beyond all question-ing, a magnificent piece of workmanship, with its tierabove tier of finely-pitched arches of granite blocks,set without… … SEGOVIA 91 withal subordination of the surrounding scenery, or themeanness of the hovels that cluster round it, and helpenormously to set it off—it must be conceded that thisbridge is inferior to the noble aqueducts of the Pont duGard, Tarragona, or Alcantara, lacking something of thegrand…
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