{43b} More correctly, _el Ferrol_ or _farol_, the lighthouse. Nothing can more strikingly give the lie to the conventional taunt that Spain has made no progress in recent years than the condition of the modern town of el Ferrol compared with the description in the text. It is now a flourishing and remarkably clean town of over 23,000 inhabitants, with an arsenal not only magnificent in its construction, but filled with every modern appliance, employing daily some 4000 skilled workmen, whose club (_el liceo de los artesanos_) might serve as a model for similar institutions in more “advanced” countries. It comprises a library, recreation-room, casino, sick fund, benefit society, and school; and lectures and evening parties, dramatic entertainments, and classes for scientific students, are all to be found within its walls. {45} A little town charmingly situated on a little bay at the mouth of the river Eo, which divides Galicia from Asturias, famous for oysters and salmon. {46} Signifying in Portugese or Galician, “A thing of gold.” {47} Tertian ague, or intermittent three-day fever. {49} “Come along, my little Parrot!” {58a} A town on the sea-coast about half-way between Rivadeo and Aviles. {58b} Query. See note, p. 45. {59} On the right bank of the Eo, over against Rivadeo. {62a} The port of Oviedo. {62b} See the Glossary, _s.v._ COPLA. {66} “God bless me!” {67} I.e. _Bascuence_, or _Vascuence_, the Basque language. {70} Query, Aviles? {71} Job xxxix. 25: “. . . the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.” {75} “Good heavens!” {76} I.e. _jacas_. {79a} The cathedral at Oviedo is one of the oldest and most interesting foundations in Spain. The first stone was laid by Alfonso II. in 802; the greater part of the existing edifice is of the fourteenth century. But the great glory of Oviedo, entitling it to rank as second among the holy cities of Christian Spain, is the Camara Santa, and the relics therein contained (see Burke’s _History of Spain_ vol. i. pp. 122–124, 140, 141, 147–150, 165, 275; vol. ii. pp. 8–11; and Murray’s _Handbook_, sub. _Oviedo_). {79b} Benito Feyjoo was born in 1676, and having assumed the Benedictine habit early in life, settled at length in a convent of his order at Oviedo, where he lived for hard on fifty years. He died in 1764.