Excerpt from Among the Spanish People, Vol. 2 of 2

A day at Alcala, even though, as in our case, a very wet and cold day, is ever, to the lover of Don Quixote, a most interesting one. Here, as the bibliologist will remember, was educated the greatest light of his age, Cardinal Ximenes, here was printed the famous Polyglot Bible, here ¿ourished for many years, the one great university of Spain.

This deserted City of convents and cloistered streets, with its muddy river filtering through barren steppes, is but one hour's run from Madrid.

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