Excerpt from Narrative of a Spring Tour in Portugal: With a Chapter on the Birds of Portugal, and a List of 235 Species Carefully Determined But I need not multiply examples. The famous Pen insula and Oriental Company has found it necessary to charter a steamer every week from Marseilles, as well as from Southampton; though there are several other lines of communication lately Opened with the east, by way of Brindisi at the Southern extremity of Italy, as well as by Trieste and Corfu; and the same multiplication of steamers (the surest proof of increased traffic) may be observed at almost every port at home and abroad. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.