Hints to Travellers in Portugal, Etc1852 - 88 pages |
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... hills , and ascends the mountains of Portugal . * Great efforts are , however , now being made to carry into effect the oft - projected plans of a good road between Lisbon and Oporto , Braga and Guimarãens . For these and other reasons ...
... hills , and ascends the mountains of Portugal . * Great efforts are , however , now being made to carry into effect the oft - projected plans of a good road between Lisbon and Oporto , Braga and Guimarãens . For these and other reasons ...
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... hills and valleys , the rivers , gorges , and mountains of Portugal , and of enjoying all that can gratify their feelings and purify their taste ; and in their rovings , far and wide , they will often be constrained to exclaim , in the ...
... hills and valleys , the rivers , gorges , and mountains of Portugal , and of enjoying all that can gratify their feelings and purify their taste ; and in their rovings , far and wide , they will often be constrained to exclaim , in the ...
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... hills and the mountains , and the wanderer is enabled to behold the blended beauties of light and shade , of hill and vale , of rivers , sea , and mountains , and to the utmost extent of vision to inhale the beauty and the grandeur ...
... hills and the mountains , and the wanderer is enabled to behold the blended beauties of light and shade , of hill and vale , of rivers , sea , and mountains , and to the utmost extent of vision to inhale the beauty and the grandeur ...
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... hills , and whose eyes and heart are equally influenced by the graceful in every form : one additional thing , however , must be men- tioned , as perfecting the beauty and loveliness of the land ; it is , the wonderful variety of tints ...
... hills , and whose eyes and heart are equally influenced by the graceful in every form : one additional thing , however , must be men- tioned , as perfecting the beauty and loveliness of the land ; it is , the wonderful variety of tints ...
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... hill of which is a pleasant view . Matozinhos ( by way of the hill of St. Gens , from which also is a pleasant view ) , thence to Leça da Palmeira , returning by the high road , or by way of St. John's , at the mouth of the Douro ; to ...
... hill of which is a pleasant view . Matozinhos ( by way of the hill of St. Gens , from which also is a pleasant view ) , thence to Leça da Palmeira , returning by the high road , or by way of St. John's , at the mouth of the Douro ; to ...
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13 leagues Abrantes Account Alcobaça Alem-Tejo Amarante ancient Arrabida ascended ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS Aveiro Batalha beautiful BISHOP Braga Bussaco Cabril Caldas Castello Branco castle CHARLES Church Cintra Coimbra convent Dictionary distance Douro England English Estalagem Estrella Mountains Evora Fcap feet Figueirò Fourth Edition French G. R. GLEIG GEORGE Gerez German grand grandeur Greek Guimarãens hills History Illustrated JAMES João JOHN journey LAMEGO Leiria Letters LISBON London LORD Memoirs Minho Moita Monte Mor moun muscatel Notes Oporto Outeiro-Maior palace Palhoça Palmella Pedrogão Pezo Plates Ponte de Cabril Ponte do Lima Portrait Portugal Post 8vo quinta remarkable ride river road Roman Royal 4to Royal 8vo Santarem scenery Second Edition Senhora Sermons Serra Setubal Spain splendid Tagus tains thence Third Edition Thomar tion Torres Translated traveller trees Valença Venda Nova Vianna Villa visited Vizeu Vols wild Woodcuts Zezere دو دو دو وو وو وو
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