palace-plain

Updated: August 2, 2026

I, however, remained resolute in my desire to make the trial, and before I left him, obtained a letter of introduction to Mendizabal. Early one morning I repaired to the palace, in a wing of which was the office of the Prime Minister; it was bitterly cold, and the Guadarama, of which there is a noble view from the palace-plain, was covered with snow.

George Henry Borrow - The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula