Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-12-07
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What "A Merchant saw In Europe.
MALAGA, SPAIN,

purpose to hurry you away from that
treasure of interest. l would fam do so
because l feel my utter incspacity to do
the f4intest descriptive Justice to so won.
9srful and fascinating palace. From
| he room of the two sisters we shall now
proceed to the adjoining apartment, oocu-
Died in the days of Boabdils's glory by
the choicest beauty of bis barem. Tradi-
tion tells us she was a model of form and
feature, and that the graces had wrought
their highest perfection in Lindarsj 4, the
chosen one of all the Arabian beauties
~ho clustered about the Royal Court
| The story Of her charms ia at the tongue'A
end of all who have studied the Alham-
IRA. It may be in that quaint verse of
Browns we have the answer to the ques-
tion 40 often repeated since our coming
10 Granada: Elbow is it that everything
about Granada is so charming, yet the
people generally so repnlsiva, and so
| many OF them the lame, the It, and rhe
| blind ?" Did Lindsrsja abs ,rb all of the
2races? II is barely possible the verse
| 'pplias to her, and answers our question
''Nature was here an lavish of her store
That she bestowed until she al no more;
Whose treasure being eskened by this dame,
She thrusts into the world so many lame"
b the story of Lindaraj4 true or 9th.
er wise, she certainly dwelt in room fit
ted to satisfy the utmost refinement of
taste, and the highest conceptions of ele-
gance. The charming garden which che
looked upon, and the fragrance of whose
flowers waited to her through that exquis-
'tely carved window, was named for Lin.
aarsj,. "The Garden of the Beautiful
Jewel"
We pass to the apartments OF Charles ".
which are emblsznned with his favorite
motto, "Plus Outre," and then to the bal
ustrads or portico, which is three hun
dred feet directly above the streets Of
Granada. Here Joseph, our guide, stopped
to enlarge upon the beauty of the piano.
rama spread below us. 1t is worthy his
highest enconiums, and while we are en-
ioying it, and smiling to think of the set
role of description he has just concluded,
he assures US that he knows every duty
appertaining to true aud valuable guide.
" Gentlemen, I knows what a foe guide
ought to say. think you so, gentlemen =
OF course we assented, aud then we in
! terrupted Joseph's self laudation by pass
ing along the balustrade to the Queens
toilet room. which has been marred by
Charles VS. paintings of his wars. and q
number of grotesque and ridiculous
sketches The toilet room is small
.quare cabinet, to which the Sultana re-
paired Immediately after her bath, stand
ing upon perforated tiles, her body was
dried by gusts of warm air, highly per-
TUNED, and waited from furnace below
Much that we see clearly betokens the
aensualism of the early Moors. The car
nal tastes. grossly pandered by variety
of process, outdone by the unspared hand
maids ingenuity, and eloaked with refine
ment of art.
Joseph told us very laughable but re-
prehensible joke which he played upon
Spaniard who knew nothing of English.
and desiring TO assist Joseph as guide TO
the palace, had repeatedly importuned
him to teach the necessary common
phrases. Joseph jealous of his position.
impressed the Spsniard of the necessity
- onA
taught him the following; beautiful
arsbesque designs. matchless and priceless
treasures of art Now you are an inappre- !
ci4tive id fool" And giving the Span
lard a fiery red haired Euglishman to
practice upon, row ensued. and the new
guide gave it up as a bad job. We go to
the court of the Nymphs, and are sad
dened and made to shudder by the iron
grating balustrsde, where Crazy Jane, the
daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, the
mother of Charles V, was confined while
a dangerous maniac.
Now to the Hall of the Ambassadors,
decorated and enRraven
With the notices of all the Kings of
Granada. 1t has eight balconies, and in
the center, a dome of richly carved cedar
wood. Through the audience chamber
rem rkable for it's mosaics, we are finally
ushered TO the rooms occupied by Wash
ington Irving. which are only remarkable
for an immense old fashioned New Eng
land fire place, and general dilapidation
Time must have wrought great changes
since Irving was here in 1899. The wall
which faces the Garden of the Jewel has
fallen out and the rooms are marred by
the fallen plastering but this is the ver-
liable apot where Dolores frisked, and
made glad the heart of one whom Ameri-
ca may well embslm in the history of
her good and great. There are an half
score of rooms I have not mentioned, but
with presumption only matched by my
I have ventured to say thus
much of subject that has bnfH ed pens
Of genius and artists brushes. am
heartily glad to surrender with the as
surance that you must see to appreciate
or to family comprehend the wondrous
ALEXANDRA.
We made numerous visits to the palace,
and our last look was with more interest
than our first. We felt that we were be-
coming acquainted with the wonderful
place. Its lace work carvings and the
faultless grace and symmetry of its every
part was of that refiued elegance, and so
to speak, of that softness to the eye-such
as will bear the familiarity of continued
and prolonged acqIsintance-not firing
,ne with s4meuess, end ever pleasing t.
ook upon. 1t is the common remark of
visitors to the falls of Niagara that the
more one sees of them the mightier they
become, while repeated and prolonged
,isits only tend to impress ones mind
more foroibly that their laundering is the
,oice of God, and that unresistible nigh
y torrent headlong pluuging to the abyss
q tho symbol of Gods mower Friends