Crossword-Solution: GENAL 5 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

For the greater part of the first three leagues[64] (full fourteen English miles) to Atajate, the road winds along the summit of a low mountain chain, (I speak only as compared with the height of the neighbouring Sierras) the western side of which slopes gracefully to the clear and tortuous Guadiaro, whilst the eastern falls abruptly to the dark and rapid Genal.

Through the passes between the huge peaks that break the summit of this bold range, an occasional glimpse may be caught of the low and far distant ground about Cadiz and Chiclana; but the view that most excites the traveller's admiration is obtained from a knoll on the road side, about three miles from Gaucin, looking back on that place, and down the verdant valley of the Genal.

Behind, serving as a kind of citadel to these numerous outworks, rises the huge _Sierra Bermeja_, which afforded a last refuge to the persecuted Moslems; and at its very foot, about five miles up the valley of the Genal, are the ruins of _Benastepar_; the birth-place of the Moorish hero, _El Feri_, whose courage and address so long baffled the exterminating projects of the Spaniards.