Excerpt from Italy: With Sketches of Spain and Portugal, Vol. 2 of 2 Portugal attracting much attention in her present convulsed and declining state, it might t perhaps be uninteresting to the public to cast back a glance by way of contrast to the happier times when she enjoyed under the mild and beneficent reign of Donna Maria the First, a great share of courtly and commercial prosperity. 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 techlogy 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.