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circulated everywhere throughout the palace, sparkling up in jets in 

 the midst of the apartments and then tinkling through marble channels 

 to the various courtyards and gardens, and supplying the baths and fish- 

 pools. After it has sufficed to meet all the requirements of the palace 

 it f^ows down the hillside, maintaining a perpetual verdure and coolness. 

 The Moors carried the art of irrigation to its highest point ; their 

 hydraulic works still exist, and it is to them that Granada owes its repu- 

 tation of being the Paradise of Spain and the fact of its enjoying an 

 eternal spring in an African temperature. 



THE HILL OF THE GENERALIFE. 



The Generalife (illus., p. 272) {jennatu-r-arif, the Garden of the 

 Architect) is situated upon a hillside above the Alhambra, from which it is 

 separated by a ravine. It was the casa de canipo, or country house, of the 

 Alhambra, where the Moorish kings came to spend the summer months. 

 The road to this beautiful place winds through the vineyards and orchards 

 of the farm, which extend right up to the garden walls, and for the last 

 few hundred yards the approach is by an avenue of square cut cypress trees. 

 The whole hillside is composed of a rich red soil, wonderfully fertile, and 



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