Excerpt from The Velvet Glove On one side it is bordered by the wall of the city. The left bank is low and sandy, liable to flood a haunt of lizards in the summer, of frogs in winter time. The lower bank is bordered by poplar trees, and here and there plots of land have been recovered from the river bed for tillage and the growth of that harsh red Wine which seems to harden and thicken the men Of Aragon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.