[Illustration: A SECTION OF THE GATE OF JUDGMENT.] [Illustration: INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE OF THE ALHAMBRA.] [Illustration: VIEW OF THE ACQUEDUCT, NEAR THE ALHAMBRA.] [Illustration: PLATE XXV. Details of an Arch, Portico of the Court of Lions. Spandril of the opposite side of Arch. No. 34. Court of The Lions.] [Illustration: PLATE XXVI. No. 35. Capitals in the Hall of Two Sisters.] [Illustration: PLATE XXVII. Section on the line A.B. Plan of the Pendants in the Angle. No. 36. Details of the Great Arches in the Hall of the Bark.] [Illustration: PLATE XXVIII. No. 37. 4, 5. Arches, Court of The Lions. 1, 2, 3, 6. Arches, Hall of Justice.] [Illustration: PLATE XXIX. No. 38. Details of The Great Arches.] [Illustration: PLATE XXX. No. 39. 1. Hall of Ambassadors. 2. Court of The Fish Pond. 3. Hall of The Bark. 4. Hall of The Two Sisters.] [Illustration: PLATE XXXI. No. 40. Detail of an Arch, Court of The Fish Pond.] [Illustration: PLATE XXXII. No. 41. Detail of an Arch, Portico of The Court of Lions.] [Illustration: A VIEW OF THE ALHAMBRA FROM THE ALBAYCIN.] [Illustration: GATE OF JUSTICE.] Christians, the reduction of the last stronghold of the Moors became only a question of time. As we know, the surrender of Granada took place within four years after the fall of Loja. But it is not the history of the Dominion and Expulsion, so much as the description of the Hall of the Abencerrages, that demands attention at present. After the glories of the _Sala de las Dos Hermanas_, the Hall of the Abencerrages, elegant as it is, pales somewhat in interest. There are but few inscriptions here. It has been repeatedly “restored,” and much of the ornament which decorates the walls seems to have been transferred from the Hall of The Two Sisters. The arches, however, appear in their original state, and are most beautiful in general form, as in their surface decoration. The manner in which the arch-form gradually grows out from the shaft of the column is exquisite. In the centre of the Hall is the famous “Fountain,” with the waters of which the blood of the Abencerrage chieftains is said to have mingled. The beautiful wooden doors to the Hall of the Abencerrages existed in their places, and in perfect condition till the summer of 1837, when they were removed and sawn in halves by the then resident Governor of the Alhambra for the purpose of stopping a gap in another part of the Palace; and, as they proved too large for the openings to which they were applied, the superfluous parts were broken up for firewood!