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"...and I goes into society (with my pocket-pistols), and I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhoea and bites from the musquitoes." Byron to Hodgson 1809-07-16
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See 1809-07-16 to FrHodgson: "... the village of Cintra in Estremadura is the most beautiful, perhaps, in the world. * * *..."

The second country visited during the Mediterranedan Tour. "Byron and Hobhouse travelled across Spain in the summer of 1809. ... The version of this journey in CHP I is concerned with
the effects of the Napoleonic annexation of Spain in 1808 ...."…

See CaByron to Byron 1808-05-23. The site of Byron's coal holdings, which he tried to sell. "Byron inherited land here with his title in 1798, but the leasehold -- and with it the valuable right to mine coal -- had been sold (illegally) by…

Byron's Norfolk copyholds. See 1810-03-03

Byron to James Cawthorn, from The Volage Frigate off Ushant July 7th. 1811*
(Source: text from BLJ II-57-8)

Byron to James Cawthorn, from The Volage Frigate off Ushant July 7th. 1811*

Byron to James Cawthorn, from The Volage Frigate off Ushant July 7th. 1811*

Byron to James Cawthorn, from The Volage Frigate off Ushant July 7th. 1811
An island at the south-western end of the English Channel which marks the north-westernmost point of metropolitan France. Wiki

Byron to FrHodgson 1811-01-20. Name used by Fletcher in 1811-05-30. Geo coor for Aberdeen