OMNIANA.
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Ipsis saxis scribe
Nostras Lusitanos.
The other is in a different metre, and somewhat in the brocade fashion of Gongora. One stanza will sufficiently exemplify it.
Aperiente Aurora
Fenestras spaciosas orientis,
Quando diligens Flora
Conspergit unda fluvii currentis
Prata, et cristalo fontis
Currum ostendit genitor Phaetontis.
The Catholic visits Busaco for the sake of the indulgencies which are to be obtained there by ascending on his knees the eight and twenty steps of its Scala Cœli. Henceforth Lord Wellington's victory will frequently lead an Englishman there, and the beauty of the place would probably well repay the pilgrimage. There are four springs within the walls, one of them ornamented at the expence of Count D.
