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Title: Through Portugal
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp, 1847-1910 Forrest, A. S. (Archibald Stevenson), 1869-
Subjects: Portugal -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, E. G. Richards
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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on, some very fine sacred groups in enamelled earthenware, the figures half life-size, and was told that these scenes of the Passion were intended by the Government for the restoration of the shrines at Bussaco, I breathed a silent hope that, though the groups might be replaced, no attempt would be made to restore to newness the shrines themselves. As one trod the old path of the pilgrimage, up mossy steps and past despoiled shrines, with glimpses of sunlit glades and shady green dells, it was impossible to shut away from ones thoughts those generations of silent white-clad figures, who, shoeless, had toiled so often up the Via Dolorosa, with tears of penitence, perhaps agonies of regret, for the life from which they had fled. All around were relics of their unrecorded labour. Sculptured stones, chapels, hermitages, fountains, grottoes, and shrines were all built by their patient hands; paths scarped on steep hillsides, seats placed in quiet nooks for the meditative and the weary, 104
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oo < m< OS o< X o BUSSACO nay, the trees and plants from all lands growingso proudly now had all been tended anxiouslyby the same dumb shadows that for centurieswaited for death within the walls enclosingthe sacred wood. If ever a place was hauntedby sad, harmless ghosts, these paths of pil-grimage at Bussaco must still be thronged bythe white-robed phantoms of those who madethem. Turning aside and descending the glen by anarrower path, a ramble of half a mile bringsme to another scene of marvellous beauty.In the foreground is a pool covered with waterlilies and overshadowed by trees; and from it,leading straight up the hillside, is the holystair, or cold spring, as it is called. Elevendouble flights of stone stairs, each pair offlights leading to a landing of black and whitemosaic, whilst in the centre between the twolines of steps a rocky cataract leads a rushingstream of icy cold clear water from thefountain gushing at the top from the rock inits mosaic recess down to the

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