Excerpt from Notes on Portugal Portugal has always desired to live in amity with its neigh bor, a nation of the same race; but the student in history will find that the two kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsular have, up to the present, pursued two paths as distinct from each other, as are their customs, natures and aspirations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.