The Argosy — page 54: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

The Cruise of the Reserve Squadron. 4I fountain, its orange trees and Japanese medlars touched into life by the moonbeams. Its high walls looked gloomy and prison-like, bats wheeled their noiseless flight. Back into the palace, and guided by Diogenes, we went down into the Chamber of Secrets, where, by applying the ear to one of the angles of the wall, one heard dis- tinctly what was said at the further end. Beyond this was a long, low vaulted room, not always shown, wherein were sculptures and figures of curious device, more mythological, perhaps, than quite orthodox. Finally, climbing the dark staircase of a tower, we were rewarded Ay = . | = me ise ; ie Qs: eae it At N hes ee : A WY * , a> Er cs y’ \ i / Mara MIMS! 4x4 <—— > > ee ~~ L ‘HE ALHAMBRA AND GRANADA. by a scene that amazed our already bewitched senses. An immense tract of country lay spread before us, steeped in silence. The moon, still rolling upwards, threw a flood of vivid, silvery light over all. _ Below, like a dream-city, Granada sparkled with lamps and seemed in possession of a crowd. Immediately beneath us were the pine- clad steeps on which the Alhambra stands so nobly. On the right were the huts of the gipsies, but no sound came to-night from those dark and gloomy abodes. To our left were the courts and halls through which we had lately wandered and dreamed; while the outlines of the outer walls with their towers, enclosing the territory of the Alhambra, might be distinctly traced. Far down, the river ran its course, and beyond the immense plain the mountains rose against the dark sky, the snows of the Sierra conniclooolkks (CO)