. Family notes. I -a , ..,%i|. nifmiiiiKiiiiiiKniiiiMvjg. ^ I IRISH DESCENT An Adventure in the Portuguese Army in 1834 The March Whoever has witnessed Portuguese scenery must have been favorablyimpressed with its grandeur. The traveller mav pursue his weary pilgrim-age for miles with naught but mountain heather to attract his attention,but how amply is he repaid on nearing a Portuguese or Spanish eye that has wandered in vain over the rugged and barren wildernessin search of the habitation of man, at length rests on the pinnacles ofa distant iMoorish ruin which generally indicates
. Family notes. I -a , ..,%i|. nifmiiiiKiiiiiiKniiiiMvjg. ^ I IRISH DESCENT An Adventure in the Portuguese Army in 1834 The March Whoever has witnessed Portuguese scenery must have been favorablyimpressed with its grandeur. The traveller mav pursue his weary pilgrim-age for miles with naught but mountain heather to attract his attention,but how amply is he repaid on nearing a Portuguese or Spanish eye that has wandered in vain over the rugged and barren wildernessin search of the habitation of man, at length rests on the pinnacles ofa distant iMoorish ruin which generally indicates the approach to a Span-ish town. On arriving at the summit of this distant hill how impossible itis to do justice to the scene. The observer finds himself standing on thesummit of an old Moorish fortification whose dilapidated walls, coveredwith ivy, seem to bid defiance to time. Such was the spot on which Ihalted with my regiment one thousand feet above the level of the mostbeautiful valley one could desire to behold. A windi
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