Namancos

Lycidas 162. (See also Bayona, Guarded Mount.) A district in Galicia, Spain, one of the arch presbyteries into which the archbishopric of Santiago de Compos tell a is divided. It is the most western part of the country, terminating in Cape Finisterre. For a discu ion of the place see Albert S. Cook, in The Modern Language Review 2. 124. To the many references given there to various editions of Ortelius, Mercat or, and others, may be added one to the map of Gallaecia in Mercat or ‘s Atlas of 1628 (p. 218), where ’Namancos T.’ (i. e., Tierra) is prom Milton imagines the angel on St. Michael’s inently marked. Mount to look toward the south, in which direction there is no land between the Mount and Spain. Ma on in his note refers to a pa age in Drayton Then Cornwall creepeth out into the westerne maine, As (lying in her eye) shee poynteth still at Spain. {Polyolbion 23.) The “Narrow Seas,” where the English claimed sovereignty, and exacted salutes from foreign ve els, extended, some say, south as far as Cape Finisterre. 216