A similar cession of sole hunting-rights to the King was simultaneously made by the owners of the "Central Group" of the Picos de Europa in Asturias.
A bird peculiar to this region, though not game, deserves remark, the great black woodpecker, a subarctic species which we have observed in the Picosde Europa.
A fortnight before I had climbed the Plaza de Almanzór in the Sierra de Grédos, but these pinnacles of the Picos proved beyond my powers.
Neither in Grédos nor Neváda are the rock-formations so precipitous as in the Picos de Europa in Asturias--described later in this book.
The ship of the Portuguese carries from five to six hundred picos of white untwisted silk.
It will carry about two hundred picosof camphor, which goes to Portugal.
It will carry one hundred picos of rhubarb, which costs two and one-half taes, and is sold for five, thus doubling the money.
One thousand picos of spun and raw silk of Changuei, [59] each pico containing one hundred and thirty libras, and costing two hundred pesos, amount to two hundred thousand pesos.
Laden with retros (the fine red silk), of four or five hundred picos of all colors, at a cost of one hundred and forty taes, it is sold in Xapon at three hundred and seventy and sometimes four hundred taes.
It will carry three or four picos of gold, bought in the manner aforesaid.
It will carry six or seven picos of musk, which is used by the people of the country.
Each libra of silk of the quality named in the first item, at fifteen pesos, the one thousand picos amounting to one million nine hundred and fifty thousand pesos.
The said ship takes, on its return to Yndia, the aforesaid merchandise of loose white silk--one thousandpicos at the abovesaid prices.
A light railway is being constructed along the coast to link up the two dead ends at Cabezon and Arriondas, and soon the visitor to the Picos will be able to reach Unquera by train.
No other province in Spain--few even in Italy--can show such wealth of natural beauty; and it is the district around the Picosde Europa that is the crowning glory of the whole.
Potes itself lies just above the mouth of the great Gorge, and the precipices of the Picos dominate it as the Wetterhorn dominates Grindelwald.
But a stream that has pierced the Picos recks little of minor obstacles, and the waves are booming to welcome it but half a mile beyond.
They are specially abundant near the Picos de Europa.
Six hundred picos of iron, at various prices are used in addition to that brought by sail from Nueva España, which will amount to two thousand pesos.
The mountain scenery of these two provinces is most picturesque, both along the sea-board and in the interior, where the snow sometimes lies on the Picos de Europa until July or August.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "picos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
