Note 573 — SECTION VIII: CHAPTER II
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In endeavouring to excuse Moore, Napier takes the strange course of making out that the Guarda road, though usable, as experience showed, was ‘in a military sense, non-practicable’ from its difficulties. This will not stand in face of Moore’s words quoted above. Of the Coimbra—Celorico road he omits all mention (i. 345).