The Alhambra . quakes which from time to time have thrown Granada intoconsternation; and which, sooner or later, must reduce thiscrumbling pile to a mere mass of ruin. The deep narrow glenbelow us, which gradually widens as it opens from the moun- PANORAMA FROM THE TOWER OF COMARES 125 tains, is the valley of the Darro ; you see the little river windingits way under embowered terraces, and among orchards and ^..^ ^S-^J. flower-gardens. It is a stream famous in old times for yieldinggold, and its sands are still sifted occasionally, in search of theprecious ore. Some of those white pavilions, w
The Alhambra . quakes which from time to time have thrown Granada intoconsternation; and which, sooner or later, must reduce thiscrumbling pile to a mere mass of ruin. The deep narrow glenbelow us, which gradually widens as it opens from the moun- PANORAMA FROM THE TOWER OF COMARES 125 tains, is the valley of the Darro ; you see the little river windingits way under embowered terraces, and among orchards and ^..^ ^S-^J. flower-gardens. It is a stream famous in old times for yieldinggold, and its sands are still sifted occasionally, in search of theprecious ore. Some of those white pavilions, which here and 126 THE ALIIAMBRA there gleam from among groves and vineyards, were rusticretreats of the Moors, to enjoy the refreshment of their have they been compared by one of their poets to somany pearls set in a bed of emeralds. The airy palace, with its tall white towers and long arcades,which breasts yon mountain, among pompous groves andhanging gardens, is the Generalife, a summer palace of theMoorish kings, to which they resorted during the sultry monthsto enjoy a still more breezy region than that of the naked summit of the height above it, where you behold •-»iM
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