This elegant mode of inlay is common in Oriental palaces, and may be
observed also in Alhambra, at Granada.]
[Footnote 23: page 74.--_A vaulted, circular, and highly embossed roof,
of purple, scarlet, and gold._ In the very first style of Saracenic
architecture. See the Hall of the Ambassadors in Alhambra, and many
other chambers in that exquisite creation.]
[Footnote 24: page 74.--_Nubian eunuchs dressed in rich habits of
scarlet and gold._ Thus the guard of Nubian eunuchs of the present Pacha
of Egypt, Mehemet Ali, or rather Caliph, a title which he wishes to
assume. They ride upon white horses.]
[Footnote 25: page 74.--_A quadrangular court of roses._ So in Alhambra,
'The Court of Myrtles,' leading to the Court of Columns, wherein is the
famous Fountain of Lions.]
[Footnote 26: page 75.--_An Abyssinian giant._ A giant is still a common
appendage to an Oriental court even at the present day. See a very
amusing story in the picturesque 'Persian Sketches' of that famous
elchee, Sir John Malcolm.]
[Footnote 27: page 75.--_Surrounded by figures of every rare quadruped._
'The hall of audience,' says Gibbon, from Cardonne, speaking of the
magnificence of the Saracens of Cordova, 'was encrusted with gold and
pearls, and a great basin in the centre was surrounded with the curious
and costly figures of birds and quadrupeds.
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