Old Moorish Villages 207 
as is found at intervals in this marvellous limestone country. 
Where such an advantage could be combined with a good defensible 
ONE OF THE OLD MOORISH VILLAGES IN THE UPPER SIERRA. 
post, large villages sprang up. Each one of them was in com- 
munication with at least one other, either by direct view from some 
building or by the construction of some watch tower on a com- 
