[1] “Infernal anis,” says the advertisement, “made from the worst wines of the Priorato, is neither tonic, digestive, nor restorative, and has never been commended at any exhibition.”
[2] Literally “Tubs”, the solid semicircular bastions of Spanish town walls.
[3] A collegiate church, intermediate in dignity between a parish church and a cathedral.
[4] A public promenade, thickly planted with trees.
[5] A Spanish league is about an hour’s march, say 3¾ miles.
[6] At one place it consisted of a huge earthenware bowl, 3 feet high and 4 feet in diameter, filled up solid with earth to within 4 inches of the rim.
[7] Here died ——.
[10] This monastery is a very notable Leonese monument, a masterpiece of Plateresque, somewhat similar to the Otto Heinrichs Bau at Heidelberg, and formerly the property of the knights of Santiago.