Thanks to the fact that nowadays more and more books are digitized we are
able to read books that are some times for decades no longer available for the
public for several reasons. That’s quite a pity while these books contains
useful information while the archives are destroyed, incomplete or nor
accessible.
P. 35: “Arsenal da Marinha. The arsenal on the banks of the river has its principal entrance from the Largo do Pelourinho. This vast building was erected by order of Pombal, after the great earthquake, on the site of the royal palace and of the old naval arsenal. It contains naval magazines and offices for different departments of the naval service; here also are the marine schools. Instruction is given to the students in an immense room called Sala do Kisco; it is about 250 ft. long, 65 broad, and 50 high. Here are a number of diagrams and models; and at one end a vessel, for it is too large to be called a model, about 50 ft. long, and completely rigged. It has also some very indifferent busts of Dom Pedro, Dona Maria II., and Dom Fernando. It was in this room that the great exposition of national industry took place in the year 1819. At the S. end is the central telegraph of the kingdom. Within the arsenal is a spring of mineral water, strongly impregnated with sulphur, said to have been found useful in various diseases. The last line-of-battle ship built here, and the only one which Portugal possesses, after being about 20 years on the stocks, and afloat about 10, made one voyage to Setubal and back, and now rots in the Tagus.”
Source
John Murray (Firm). A handbook for travellers in Portugal: A complete guide for Lisbon, Cintra etc. Lisbon, 1864.
P. 35: “Arsenal da Marinha. The arsenal on the banks of the river has its principal entrance from the Largo do Pelourinho. This vast building was erected by order of Pombal, after the great earthquake, on the site of the royal palace and of the old naval arsenal. It contains naval magazines and offices for different departments of the naval service; here also are the marine schools. Instruction is given to the students in an immense room called Sala do Kisco; it is about 250 ft. long, 65 broad, and 50 high. Here are a number of diagrams and models; and at one end a vessel, for it is too large to be called a model, about 50 ft. long, and completely rigged. It has also some very indifferent busts of Dom Pedro, Dona Maria II., and Dom Fernando. It was in this room that the great exposition of national industry took place in the year 1819. At the S. end is the central telegraph of the kingdom. Within the arsenal is a spring of mineral water, strongly impregnated with sulphur, said to have been found useful in various diseases. The last line-of-battle ship built here, and the only one which Portugal possesses, after being about 20 years on the stocks, and afloat about 10, made one voyage to Setubal and back, and now rots in the Tagus.”
Source
John Murray (Firm). A handbook for travellers in Portugal: A complete guide for Lisbon, Cintra etc. Lisbon, 1864.
