Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Plans, Elevations, Sections and Views of the Church of Batalha in the Province of Estremadura in Portugal: With the History and Description
This Monaftery is fituated in a finall village of the fame name, in the province of Eftremadura in Portugal, about fixty miles N, of Lifbon; it is environed by mountains, fome of which produce pine and olive trees. The country around it is pretty well cultivated. Particularly the plains, which are naturally fertile, and well watered, yielding great quantities of excellent grapes and olives. The village is inhabited chie?y by indigent but indufirious people, many of whom derive a comfortable fublilience from their employments in the fervice of the Convent.
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