Norwich bulletin., 1921-06-23

Crusaders who mingled with the Port uquese masses left it's mark too, and has shown ifself in the friendly re- lations that have practically ever since existed between the two nations.
 Men of letters have sought out the city for it's individuality and beauty l which caused the ecstatic Byron upon 1 first beholding from the bay its ter raced seven hills to exclaim.
 | What beauties doth Lisbon first unfold Her image floating on that noble tide
 Which poets vainly pave with sands of gold.
 commercially the city has natural advantages in it's harbor, which can accommodate the largest vessels and an advantageous position on the Atlantic.
 At present it's rade is confined chief | ly exportation of cork, wine. olive oil and tropical fruits to and import | ing coal, wood, corn, rice, and manu-
 factured articles from England, Bra gil and it's own African colonies.
 Along the Tagus vegetables, fruits I and flowers are piled in high heaps ] to tempt the eager marketer, boats
 of every description from the dingy little fishing smack to the ladylike Atlantic liner are loading and unload
 ing their cargoes, and the fish ped dlers who are to be seen everywhere , in the Lisbon streets are raucously
 bargaining for their stock in trade with the fishermen along the wharves.
 Then house above house in ever ] l ascending terraces hte city proper rises
 above the water front, it's white build ings are faced with colored tiles, and !, others are washed pink or blue, but there is softness in the general i'm pression nevertheless which is very
 pleasing. The old tiled roofs which arc , warped and curving, with their grass , grown furrows are delightful.
 : "The houses and xtreets in the great 7 CT part of the city present a spicl and span appearance, but some oi the older portions of the city are not } only rustic in appearance, but are dir 7 ty. Morning and evening the milknar , drives his cows through the streets anc satisfies the housewifes mind that hi! } wares are fresh by milking her pal 5 full while she waits.One ardent civic , improvement enthusiast as late as 1S3; f put up a plea that the inhabitants bt
 forbidden to break their horses, to xiii 2 or singe their pigs in the streets ol l tie them to heir doorknobs, as suct 5 things rather annoyed the inhabitants The government houses are in thu Praca do Commercio around Black :, Horse Square, nicknamed from an ca. l uestrian statue of King Joseph, whicf ' opens out toward the water. Rolling f Motion Square, so called from tn,
 wavy mosaic of its pavement, is th, . business district. West from the cen q tre of the city stands the Palace O
 the Necessidates, where on night il October, 1910, King Manuel II enter : tained a gay party of Brazilians a e his last meal in his realm While tn . dinner was at it's height word WIS 4 brought him that revolution had brok = eh out. He calmly went on with tn . dinner, scribb1ing on a menu card tha 2 the courses of the meal were to b T served as speedily as possible, an
 not until the shells struck the palac
 walls did he rise from the table. r. Lisbon has one possession of whic m any city could be proud of. It is tn 1t monastery of San Jeronymo which, le the beauty of it's marbles, Perphyr. ,n jasper, jade lapis lazuli, it's mosaic