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ROYAL CASTLE.
BELEM CASTLE.
A SPORT.
LISBON FROM FORT ALMEIDA.
A LISBON
LADY.
MSBON, PORTUGAL.
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YOUR COFFEE
LISBON, PORTUGAL.
GRIND
This city is one of great antiquity,
supposed by some to date from the
time of Ulysses, but its foundation
is generally ascribed to the Phoenic-
ians. Its location is on the north
AT HOME,
and west banks of the Tagus. The
Castle of Belem defends the ap-
It will pay you well to keep a proach to the city, the Tagus being
small coffee-mill in your kitchen at this point not over a mile in
breadth, but above Lisbon expands
and grind your coffee just as into a spacious and magnificent har-
you use it, one mess at a time. bor. The position of Lisbon is one
Coffee should not be ground specially adapted to the purposes of
of the finest in the world, and
until the coffee-pot is ready to commerce. At the time of the
receive it. Coffee will lose more great earthquake in 1755, it was at
of its strength and aroma in one
the height of prosperity, when in
ten minutes the most important
hour after being ground than portion of the town was a mass of
in six months before being been rebuilt with fine houses and
. That part of the city has
ground. So long as
wide streets. It is divided into four
ARIOSA
quarters, two of which are Rocio,
the newly built portion, and Al-
remains in the whole berry, our fama, the old quarter which
glazing, composed of choice escaped the earthquake.
Lisbon is held by some to be the
eggs and pure confectioners' A
most remarkable city in the penin-
sugar, closes the pores of the sula, and perhaps in the south of
coffee, and thereby are retained Europe, and quite as much deserv-
ing the notice of artists as Rome
all the original strength and itself. There is a noble aqueduct
aroma.
comparable in beauty and solidity
with the most remarkable works of
ARIOSA COFFEE
the Romans. Its construction OE-
cupied nineteen years of the early
has during 25 years set the part of last century. Its principal
standard for all other roasted
arches cross the valley to the north-
east of Lisbon, which is thus sup-
coffees. So true is this that plied with cool and delicious water
from a distant source. There are
other manufacturers, in recom- many public squares, the most im-
portant of which is the Praca do
mending their goods, have | Commercio, containing the princi-
known no higher praise than pal
public edifices. The south side
is open to the water, to which
to say, "It's just as good as flights of steps lead down. Two
Arbuckles'."
columns mark the place where the
earth opened in 1755 and swallowed
up the marble quay, The Palace of
ARBUCKLE BROS. Ajuda, one of the Royal residences,
stands on the summit of a hill, its
pure Greek architecture presenting
NEW YORK CITY.
a striking contrast to the surround-
ing Moorish and Gothic buildings.
JOSEPH P. KNAPP, LITH. N. Y.
Population 1878, 246,343.
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