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Credit: The sight and how to preserve it / by Henry C. Angell. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![THE sicm: a focus before reaching the retina, because the eye- ball is too full or too long from front to rear (Fig. F, p. 2l). HOW TO DETERMINE WHEN ONE IS OVER- SIGHTED. In over-sight one does not see with perfect clear- ness and ease at any distance. Very fine type like this, for instance, is not read, even by those too young to be old-sighted, in a good light, quickly, fluently, and without effort. A parting visit to the Allmmbrft, nnd n C4ill on onr banker, find we were ready and eager to climb over llie great mountains to Malaga nnd the Mediterranean. The banking-honse was found to be a grocery »lso, and the polite dork Invited us to come the neit day to see his master. On the following day the banker himself inspected our letter of credit, and then, with expressions of regret at our impatience, ap])ointed an hour on the morrow to hand us the money. The hour of twelve on the sncceeding day found us promptly at his counter, where, to our dismay, we found a large heap of silver dollars awaiting us. As usual, tlie banker was away, and the clerk had no authority to give u« gold or paper instead ; so we told hiui that we would, therefore, only draw enough upon our letter of credit to take ne to Malaga, whereupon he al once scraped away liis heap of silver and handed us its equivalent in gold. We left Granada t4iat afternoon at six o'clock in the berlina of an excellent diligence drawn by four real horses that did not de- senerate into five mules and a boy until we arrived at Loja. The journey along the great intervale called the Vega, towards this place, is piclurea(|ue and full to the brim of the bewitching Moorish romance that makes so captivating a part of every tiling In.this ideal region. On our left, high above us. lay the snow, capped Alpujarras, the last mountain refuge of the unhappy Moors, and near it the peaks that look down upon the site of the romantic fortress of the Alhama. In front the great gorge through which the river Xenil finds its way among the mountains to join the Guadalquivir, at the right tlie rough hills, beyond whieli is old Cordova and Its famous Mosqne j behind us, beautiful Grana<la, its slender spires and turrets, its shadowy red hill crowned by the great Moorish palace. It was our parting look ; the growing t^vlllght and a rising veil of mist that half concealed the diorming scene, lent a fervour to the imagination Inseparable from such a moment. A lialf hour later and our diligence stopped to take lip a native soldier who, to onr dismay, got into the herlinn and sat between us, although there was plenty of room behind in the interior. As a matter of course we expected him to smell of garlic, like everybody and everything else in Spain. Our mistake was in supposing that the redundancy of smell In this case could be made supportable by violent use of cigariUos and extraordinary ventilation. Hs was an inoflenslve good-natured follow, and did not mind the cool night winds ; but when he took up his little tin-pail of lunch and pulled off the cover, giving free vent to the imponderable garlic, it was very bard for us not to believe him conscious of having, most impolitely, vitiated our common atmosphere. Nor are street signs made out as easily as by others with properly formed eyes. The attempt to tell the time by a public clock at a distance is](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2128510x_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
