Carvalho describes the desart as being nearly four miles in circumference, and walled in. Within this circuit are various chapels; the cells of the fathers are round the church, each having its garden and its water-course for the cultivation of flowers, which is their only recreation. The Content resembles the well known Cork Convent at Cintra; but it is upon a larger scale, and the scenery perhaps more impressive: cork is every where used instead of wood, on account of the dampness of the situation. But the Carmelites of Busaco continued till a very late period to practise austerities, of which there have been probably no instances upon the Serra de Cintra since Fray Honorio was taken out of his den to be laid in his grave, . . the more commodious, as well as capacious, of the two apartments. In the midst of the refectory stood a large cross, against which the Fathers, each in turn, as be finished his meal,
