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SARACENIC ARCHITECTURE.

Part III.

(a a), running east ancl west, was built by Abou Abclallah (1325-
1333). The other, the Court of the Alberca (b b), at right angles to
the former, is plainer ancl probably earlier. Restorers generally add a
third court, corresponding with that of the Lions, which they say was
remoA red to allow of the erection of the palace of Charles V. (x x),

which now protrucles its formal mass most unpleasingly among the
light ancl airy constructions of the Moors. My own impression is
that if anything did stand here, it was the Mosque, which we miss,
although we know that it existed, and tradition points to this side as
its locality, though it certainly was not the apartment at that angle
which now goes by that name. It must, like all Spanish mosques,
have faced the south, ancl was most probably destroyed by the first

Plan of the Alhambra, Grauada. (From G. Le Normaud.)