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 of observation, we may look out over the city to where the far-famed Vega stretches away in vapory indistinctness. The Vega is as luxuriantly productive to-day as when under the skilful irrigation of the Moor, its agricultural richness tempted his Christian neighbors to enter in and possess the land. Our gaze returns instinctively to the Alhambra height, for we are burning with impatience to find ourselves within its bewitching halls.

LIONS NOT KNOWN TO NATURAL HISTORY Photograph by Harlow D. Higinbotham

Let us first, however, return to our hotel to breakfast in its garden on the slope of the Alhambra Hill. The ''Hotel de Siete Suelos'' stands at the base of the old Moorish tower of the seven stories, from which it takes its name. This terrace lies almost in the shadow of the Alhambra walls, and from it we may look down the long avenue, descending city-*wards, and shaded by the fine old elm-trees brought hither and planted by the Duke of Wellington. We are in a place of quietude and freshness. Tall trees shut out the glare of a June sun; murmuring waters help us to forgetfulness of the parched and dusty city far below. We feel that we could live here forever and be content. Across the way rises the Hotel Washington Irving, largely patronized from patriotic motives by our fellow-countrymen. The houses are both good, and ideally located. In the shaded avenue between the two façades we shall find groups of gypsies eager to perform, for a considera