Ecause, for love of his father, I love him much, an

[Daro Sacks]

Nor could it be given a broadside or be mined, because it is on a rocky
mountain. On the side toward the city, which is a very steep slope,
there is no more than one wall;[109] on the other side, which is less
steep, there are three, one above the other. The most beautiful thing
which can be seen in the edifices of that land are these walls, because
they are of stones so large that anyone who sees them would not say that
they had been put in place by human hands, for they are as large as
chunks of mountains and huge rocks, and they have a height of thirty
palms and a length of as many more, and others have twenty and
twenty-five, and others fifteen, but there is none so small that three
carts could carry it. These are not smooth stones, but rather well
joined and matched one with another. The Spaniards who see them say that
neither the bridge of Segovia nor any other of the edifices which
Hercules or the Romans made is so worthy of being seen as this. The city
of Tarragona has some works in its walls made in this style, but neither
so strong nor of such large stones. These walls twist in such a way that
if they are attacked, it is not possible to do so from directly in
front, but only obliquely.[110] These walls are of the same stone, and
between wall and wall there is enough earth to permit three carts to go
along the top at one time. They are made after the fashion of steps, so
that one begins where another leaves off. The whole fortress was a
deposit of arms, clubs, lances, bows, axes, shields, doublets thickly
padded with cotton and other arms of various sorts, and


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