_History of the Peninsular
War_, i. 110).]

[bp] {44} _Childe Burun_----.--[MS.]

[bq]
_Less swoln with culture soon the vales extend_
_And long horizon-bounded realms appear_.--[MS. erased.]

[br] {45} _Say Muse what bounds_----.--[MS. D.]

[55] The Pyrenees.--[MS.]

[56] [If, as stanza xliii. of this canto (added in 1811) intimates,
Byron passed through "Albuera's plain" on his way from Lisbon to
Seville, he must have crossed the frontier at a point between Elvas and
Badajoz. In that case the "silver streamlet" may be identified as the
Caia. Beckford remarks on "the rivulet which separates the two kingdoms"
(_Italy, etc_., 1834, p. 291).]

[bs] {46} _But eer the bounds of Spain have far been passed_.--[MS. D.]

[bt]
_For ever famed--in many a native song_.--[MS. erased.]
----_a noted song_.--[MS. D.]

[57] [Compare Virgil, _AEneid_, i. 100--

"Ubi tot Simois correpta sub undis
Scuta virum galeasque et fortia corpora volvit."]

[58] [The standard, a cross made of Asturian oak (_La Cruz de la
Victoria_), which was said to have fallen from heaven before Pelayo
gained the victory over the Moors at Cangas, in A.D. 718, is preserved
at Oviedo. Compare Southey's _Roderick_, XXV.: _Poetical Works_, 1838,
ix. 241, and note, pp. 370, 371.]

[bu] --_which Pelagius bore_.--[MS. D.]

[59] {47} [The Moors were finally expelled from Granada in 1492, in the
reign of Ferdinand and Isabella.]

[bv] ----_waxed the Crescent pale_.--[MS. erased.]

[60] [The reference is to the Romanceros and Caballerias of the
sixteenth century.]

[bw] ----_thy little date_.--[MS. erased.]

[bx]
----_from rock to rock_
_Blue columns soaring loft in sulphury wreath_
_Fragments on fragments in contention knock_.--[MS. erased, D.]

[61] "The Siroc is the violent hot wind that for weeks together blows
down the Mediterranean from the Archipelago. Its effects are well known
to all who have passed the Straits of Gibraltar."--[MS. D.]

[62] {49} [The battle of Talavera began July 27, 1809, and lasted two
days. As Byron must have reached Seville by the 21st or 22nd of the
month, he was not, as might be inferred, a spectator of any part of the
engagement. Writing to his mother, August 11, he says, "You have heard
of the battle near Madrid, and in England they would call it a
victory--a pretty victory! Two hundred officers and five thousand men
killed, all English, and the Frenc