Ne pouvait The use of pas is optional with

pouvoir, savoir, oser, cesser.

8. 9-18. Que.. .vallée. Que... Grenade. Cf. note, p. 6, 1. 1. S. 13. Son nom. Authors do not agrée on the origin

of the name of the city.

9*ge. Une.

6. 14. Paillettes d'or, gold dust. Cf. with the following passages :

"From the Darro they gather very fine gold ; from the Xenil, silver; and it is no fiction, for the author of this work saw it done." Translated from " Wars of Granada," Part I, Ch. I, Perez de Hita.

4< The Darro is a stream famous in old times for yielding gold, and its sands are still sif ted occasionally in search of the precious ore. M — " The Alhambra," W. Irving.

" In 1526 a crown was given to Isabel, wife of Charles V., made from diminute nuggets found in this Pactolus." — "Hand-Book for Spain," R. Ford.

3. 18-34. Cf. this passage with the description of the same plain in " Granada," by W. Irving:

" The glory of the city was its vega or plain, which spread out to a circumf erence of thirty-seven leagues, surrounded by lofty mountains... Hère were seen in profusion the orange, the citron, the fig, and pomegranate, with great plantations of mulberry trees... In a word, so beautiful was the earth, so pure the air, and so serene the sky of this delioious région, that the Moors imagined the paradise of their propbet to be situated in that part of the heaven which overhung the kingdom of Granada."

S, 24. Dont... défendre, from which even the traveler who is merely passing through, can hardly défend himself .

Page. Line.

9. 16. La lune.,. croissant, it was new moon. This passage (p. 9, 1. 15— p. 10, 1. 3) is evidently in imitation of a popnlar Spanish ballad qnoted by Perea de Hita in " Wars of Granada," Part I, Ch. III, and translated by C. M. Younge in "The Story of the Christians and Moors of Spain ":

" They say upon thy natal day Of omens there was store.

The sea was lying in a calm

And wax'd the moon on high.

The Moor who with such signs was born

Hast never tell a lie.

Tell me, I pray, what castles f air

On yonder monntains shine.

'Tis the Alh&mra (Alhambra), sefior.

The Mosqne you nezt behold ;

The third's the Alijovous (Albaïzin),

Of wondrous work untold.

There spreads the Generalife, Garden unmatched on earth ; There are the Crimson Towers, Fortress of mighty worth."

Qu'il est cruel ! How cruel it is !

Faire... indifférent 8... To hâve indiffèrent

people relate...

Dieu Va voulu ! it was the will of God.

Francis I, King of France, was taken a

prisoner by the Spaniards in the battle of

Pavia (Italy) in 1525.