Note 62 — Chapter XXIX · ON VITICULTURE IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
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Except at vintage-times the Alto Douro is almost uninhabited. Hence in early autumn, when work is plentiful, there occurs an extraordinary influx of labourers—men and women—many from considerable distances, and especially from the Spanish province of Galicia, flocking into the Alto Douro as the hop-pickers in September pour into Kent from the arcana of London, or as the Irish harvesters at that season flood the Midlands and North of England.