Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain And Portugal
Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain And Portugal
Southey Robert
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Here we drefled ourfelves to pafs the Courts and Cuf- tom-houfes to morrow, and a mofl curious fcene did our di effing- room exhibit ; it was not pof- fible to procure a looking-glafs to (have by ! They fpread beds for us on mats upon the floor. The roof was of cane, and the rats running over it in the night fhook down the dirt on our heads. Hay I lay awake the whole night killing the mufki- toes as they fettled on my face, while the in- habitants of the bed entertained themfelves fo merrily at... my expence, that Sangrado himfelf would have been fatisfied with the bleeding 1 underwent. We travelled two leagues over a flat and un- pleafant country, which, Colmenar fays, is fome- times fo infefted by grafhoppers that, the King is obliged to fend a body of men to burn them. Badajos, the frontier town, then appeared at the diftance of a league, with its fort ; and three leagues beyond, the Portuguefe town of Elvas, and fort La Lippe. A regiment of cavalry is encamped under the walls : the men indeed are in tents, but the horfes have no fhelter ; and the rains are daily expefted.
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