A Child's History of Spain (Esprios Classics)

AWAY down in the south-western corner of Europe cut off from the rest of the continent by a range of mountains six to twelve thousand feet high is the beautiful country of Spain. It is a country of lofty and rugged mountain chains and long level plains. Some of the latter lie low and are watered by flowing rivers; here the climate is genial and the rainfall copious so that the fields are fat and rich; others in the centre of the country stand higher above the level of the sea; these have a scanty rainfall excessive beat in summer and extreme cold in winter and are sometimes baked and sometimes frozen but always dry and poor.