Produced by Ann Jury, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Etext transcriber's note: The footnotes have been located after the etext. Corrections of some obvious typographical errors have been made (a list follows the etext); the spellings of several words currently spelled in a different manner have been left un-touched. (i.e. chesnut/chestnut; sanatory/sanitary; every thing/everything; hords/hoards; visiters/visitors; her's/her;s negociation/negotiation.) The accentuation of words in Spanish has not been corrected or normalized. [Illustration: _On Stone by T. J. Rawlins from a Sketch by Capt C. R. Scott._ _R. Martin lithog., 26, Long Acre._ THE GENERALIFE, PALACE AND VALLEY OF THE DARRO. FROM A WINDOW IN THE ALHAMBRA. _Published by Henry Colburn, 13, G.t Marlborough St._] EXCURSIONS IN THE MOUNTAINS OF RONDA AND GRANADA, WITH CHARACTERISTIC SKETCHES OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE SOUTH OF SPAIN. BY CAPTAIN C. ROCHFORT SCOTT, AUTHOR OF "TRAVELS IN EGYPT AND CANDIA." "_Aqui hermano Sancho, podemos meter las manos_ _hasta los codos, en esto que llaman aventuras._" DON QUIJOTE. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.--1838. LONDON: F. SHOBERL, JUN. 51, RUPERT STREET, HAYMARKET. DEDICATION. To the Valued Friends who witnessed, and whom a congeniality of taste led to _enjoy_ with me, the scenes herein described--whose wearied limbs have sought repose upon the same hard floor--whose spoons have been dipped in the same _Gazpacho_, I dedicate these pages. In the course of our perigrinations we have often observed to each other, "Hæc olim meminisse juvabit." C. ROCHFORT SCOTT. Woolwich, 26th October. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. PREFATORY CHAPTER. Containing little more than an Invocation--A Dissertation--A Choice of Miseries--A Bill of Fare--And a Receipt for making a Favourite Spanish Dish.....1 CHAPTER I.