The Stub on the Toe of the Lion

Who’s on second re Gibraltar? Its complicated. Heracles had something to do with it, also Queen Anne and Louis

XIV. Now it’s up to Franco & Wilson There’s a heap of inhospitable lime- stone, dish-faced, nosing into green sea water, over which two once-great nations are right now scrapping. The casual traveler might wonder why. At a distance picturesque, this is a cramped, unlovely promontory. It runs north-south, less than three miles long and (by grabbing its rugged cheeks and stretching them) ene mile wide at most. Perhaps three-fourths of its surface—the central and western ridge—is rock: solid, unarable, precipitous, plunging from a summit 1,400 feet high to a rampart that drops another one- hundred feet vertically into the ocean.

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Peter Crumpet

Who’s on second re Gibraltar? Its complicated. Heracles had something to do with it, also Queen Anne and Louis

XIV. Now it’s up to Franco & Wilson There’s a heap of inhospitable lime- stone, dish-faced, nosing into green sea water, over which two once-great nations are right now scrapping. The casual traveler might wonder why. At a distance picturesque, this is a cramped, unlovely promontory. It runs north-south, less than three miles long and (by grabbing its rugged cheeks and stretching them) ene mile wide at most. Perhaps three-fourths of its surface—the central and western ridge—is rock: solid, unarable, precipitous, plunging from a summit 1,400 feet high to a rampart that drops another one- hundred feet vertically into the ocean.