[aw] ——smelleth filthily.—[MS. D.]
[ax] ——dammed with dirt.—[MS. erased.]
[45] [{34}] [For a fuller description of Cintra, see letter to Mrs. Byron, dated August 11, 1808 (Life, p. 92; Letters, 1898, i. 237). Southey, not often in accord with Byron, on his return from Spain (1801) testified that "for beauty all English, perhaps all existing, scenery must yield to Cintra" (Life and Corr. of R. Southey, ii. 161).]
[ay] ——views too sweet and vast——.—[MS. erased.]
——by tottering convent crowned.—[MS. erased.]
Alcornoque.—[Note (pencil).]
[46] "The sky-worn robes of tenderest blue." Collins' Ode to Pity [MS. and D.].
[ba] The murmur that the sparkling torrents keep.—[MS. erased.]
[47] [{35}] [The convent of Nossa Señora (now the Palazio) da Peña, and the Cork Convent, were visited by Beckford (circ. 1780), and are described in his Italy, with Sketches of Spain and Portugal (8vo, 1834), the reissue of his Letters Picturesque and Poetical (4to, 1783).
"Our first object was the convent of Nossa Senhora da Penha, the little romantic pile of white building I had seen glittering from afar when I first sailed by the coast of Lisbon. From this pyramidical elevation the view is boundless; you look immediately down upon an immense expanse of sea.