. Robert Ramble's [pseud.] stories selected from the history of England, from the conquest to the revolution . ted even to the tents ofthe Africans. Mahommed fled; and his swarm-ing hosts, which almost covered the land, werenearly extirpated from its surface. The tentof the Moorish monarch, which was composedof crimson silk, was, by Alphonsos particulardesire, given to the King of Arragon. Honourand success were the only rewards he coveted,and, having obtained these, his great soul leftthe more perishable spoils untouched. After this, the kings of Castile and Navarreresolved once more to attac
. Robert Ramble's [pseud.] stories selected from the history of England, from the conquest to the revolution . ted even to the tents ofthe Africans. Mahommed fled; and his swarm-ing hosts, which almost covered the land, werenearly extirpated from its surface. The tentof the Moorish monarch, which was composedof crimson silk, was, by Alphonsos particulardesire, given to the King of Arragon. Honourand success were the only rewards he coveted,and, having obtained these, his great soul leftthe more perishable spoils untouched. After this, the kings of Castile and Navarreresolved once more to attack their commonenemy, the Moors. Their joint forces marched,accordingly, to Cordova; and the environs ofthat beautiful city were covered with the Chris-tian tents. The inhabitants, though pressed byfamine within, and surrounded by enemies with-out, still bravely contended for Christian army had plenty of provisions;and Cordova at last surrendered. (See the en-graving on the opposite page.) Then the stand-ard of the cross was placed on the principalmosque, which was immediately consecrated,. (31) THE SARACENS. 33 and the father Lopez, a monk of Tetero, wasappointed the first bishop. The grand mosque of Cordova surpassed insplendour all the mosques of the East: it wassix hundred feet long, arid two hundred and fiftyfeet in breadth, and the roof was supported byone thousand and eighty-three columns of mar-ble. The entrances were by twenty-four gatesof bronze, fashioned with the most admirableworkmanship; and the principal of these w^ascovered with plates of gold. The top of thedome, which surmounted this magnificent edifice,was decorated with three golden balls, out ofwhich appeared to shoot three exquisite pome-granates and fleurs de luce, of the same richmaterial. And, to add to the glories of thiscostly house of prayer, it was, during the night,illuminated by four thousand and seven hundredlamps, which annually consumed nearly twentythousand pounds of oil; and s
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