[297] See Villa-Amil, op. cit.
[298] This poet has migrated to Cuba.
[299] See Ambrosio Morales, op. cit.
[300] This kind of building was much used by the Romans, who called it “Incertum opus,” the stones being small and unhewn.—See Parker.
[301] Quoted by Villa-Amil in Iglesias Gallegan.
[302] See Arturo Vazquez Nuñez, La Arquitectura Cristina en la provencia de Orense, 1894, where the full wording of the paragraph is given. The same writer also remarks that in the time of Adozno there was a duplex monastery at Santa Comba, and that Adozno fell in love with the abbess, but eventually repented and expiated his sin.
[303] See Labrada.
[304] Two English brothers named Benjamin set up some machinery in the town of Pontevedra about the same time, but their enterprise did not meet with success.
[305] Ford wrote: “The treading out of the fruit is generally done by night, because it is then cooler, and in order to avoid as much as possible the plague of wasps by whom the half-naked operators are liable to be stung.”
[306] Water, 1 litre: