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The Academy Squadron off Barcelona. Page 12.
YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD—SECOND SERIES.
Vine and Olive;
OR,
YOUNG AMERICA IN SPAIN AND
PORTUGAL.
A Story of Travel and Adventure.
BY
WILLIAM T. ADAMS
(OLIVER OPTIC),
AUTHOR OF “OUTWARD BOUND,” “SHAMROCK AND THISTLE,” “RED CROSS,”
“DIKES AND DITCHES,” “PALACE AND COTTAGE,” “DOWN THE
RHINE,” “UP THE BALTIC,” “NORTHERN LANDS,”
“CROSS AND CRESCENT,” “SUNNY
SHORES,” ETC.
BOSTON:
LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.
New York:
CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM.
COPYRIGHT:
By WILLIAM T. ADAMS.
1876.
TO MY FRIEND,
HENRY RUGGLES, Esq.,
“CONSULADO DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, EN BARCELONA,
EN TIEMPOS PASADOS,”
WHEN WE “ASSISTED” TOGETHER AT A BULL-FIGHT IN
MADRID, VISITED EL ESCORIAL AND TOLEDO,
AND WITH WHOM THE AUTHOR
RELUCTANTLY PARTED
AT CASTILLEJO,
THIS VOLUME
IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.
PREFACE.
Vine and Olive, the fifth volume of the second series of“Young America Abroad,” contains the history of the AcademySquadron during the cruise along the shores of Spain andPortugal, and the travels of the students in the peninsula. As inthe preceding volumes, the professor of geography and historydiscourses on these subjects to the pupils, conveying to them agreat deal of useful information concerning the countries theyvisit. The surgeon of the ship is a sort of encyclopædia of travel;and, while he is on shore with a couple of the juvenile officers,he enlightens them by his talk on a great variety of topics; andthe description of “sights” is given in these conversations, or inthe “waits” between the speeches. In addition to the cities of thepeninsula on the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, the young travellerscross the country from Barcelona to Lisbon, visiting on theway Saragossa, Burgos, the Escurial, Madrid, Toledo, Aranjuez,