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Updated: June 10, 2025
The fortifications of Elvas are models of their kind, and, at the first view, it would seem that the town, if well garrisoned, might bid defiance to any hostile power; but it has its weak point: the western side is commanded by a hill, at the distance of half a mile, from which an experienced general would cannonade it, and probably with success.
Monte Moro is the head of a range of hills which cross this part of the Alemtejo, and from hence they fork east and south-east, towards the former of which directions lies the direct road to Elvas, Badajos, and Madrid; and towards the latter that to Evora. A beautiful mountain, covered to the top with cork trees, is the third of the chain which skirts the way in the direction of Elvas.
For your sake as well as my own, therefore, I would turn off and cross the mountains say, to Portalegre and go down to Elvas. There you would be with your friends; and I could cross again, further south, and make my way down to Xeres." "They say that two of Marmont's divisions started south, yesterday."
Having nothing farther to detain me at Elvas, I proceeded to cross the frontier into Spain.
The higher mountains to the left fade gradually more and more from view; but the river Elvas spreads in such a manner, and divides into so many branches, that one might mistake it for a lake with many islands. It flows into the neighbouring sea, whose expanse becomes visible after surmounting a few more small hills.
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