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are productive saltpans from which a large
supply of salt is shipped.

The distant effect of the white town ris-
ing above the deep, blue waters is most
brilliant and dazzling, and within its nar-
row streets it is impossible to get away
from the glare of the whitewash of which
every building receives a fresh coat an-
nually. The high sea wall is the only
pleasant walk, with its little gardens full of

bright scarlet geraniums and hedged with

 

THE STORY OF SPAIN.

heliotrope. Here we may spend a hot after-
noon very agreeably, and study Spanish
life and manners, or listen to the numerous
nursery maids who are singing to their
children.

In one of the convents of Cadiz is the
picture of the marriage of St. Catharine,
in painting which, Murillo, the greatest of
Spanish painters, fell from his scaffold, and

received injuries of which he died, shortly

after.