[237] The legend of Noah having founded Noya is thought to have been invented by Annius of Viterbo, or some such person.
[238] The founder and first president of the Academia de Bellas Artes of Madrid.
[239] See Vincente Lamperez y Romea, Notas sobre algunos Monumentos de la Arquitectura Christiana Española. Madrid, 1904.
[240] “It is hard to believe,” remarks Lamperez, “as one compares this work with that of the Pórtico de Gloria, that three centuries elapsed between their construction.”
[241] Montalembert.
[242] Borrow, op. cit., mentions this bridge,—“we reached a long and ruinous bridge, seemingly of great antiquity, ... the bridge of Don Alonso. It crossed a species of creek or rather firth, for the sea was at no considerable distance; the small town of Noya lay to our right” (he should have written left).
[243] Local authorities have many times assured me that there is no trace of the Basque language or people in Galicia.
[244] Aguiar, op. cit., says of this village: “Este memoria es antiquisima aun cuando fuere alge posterior su imposition en Galicia á la existencia del 5te rey de Lacedemonia que fué dictio Argalo cerca 1400 B.C.”
[245] See Monografía de Galicia, 1905.
[246] The Gallegans invariably use the name “America” where we should say “South America.”