Note 1 — RAGUEL; OR, THE JEWESS OF TOLEDO.
Reading edition
The soil of the bed of the Tagus is a yellow sand, which gives its water rather a muddy appearance. Poets, however, see things with a different eye from ordinary mortals, and have turned it to gold in their verses: “el dorado Tajo,” the golden Tagus, is their common appellation for it. ↑