12S A SPRING TOUR IN PORTUGAL. 



for which he heartily despises all foreign tongues. Tlie 

 original name of the city was Portocale, Portus cedes; 

 and as in progress of time, when commerce increased, it 

 became the most important place of trade in the kingdom, 

 it gave its name to the whole country of Lusitania, under 

 Ferdinand the Great in 1064 ; and this name, with a very 

 slight alteration of letters, easily merged into ^ Portugal.' 



