The old Mosque, afterwards a chapel, was “purged” and consecrated by Ferdinand and Isabella, and retains but few traces of its purpose during the Moorish Dominion. The door was once overlaid with bronze, and, like all the rest of the Palace, was stripped and spoiled by generations of guardian thieves, who allowed no one but themselves to steal. Above the door is still the exquisite-laced niche where the Korán used to be placed by the green-turbaned Moollahs. Near the entrance is an elaborate and beautiful niche, which was probably the _Mihráb_, or sanctuary of the Mosque. Whilst at his prayers in this _Mihráb_, the martyred Yúsuf--he who built the Gate of Justice in 1348, and who completed the Alhambra--fell a victim to the dagger of an assassin in the year 1354. The inscriptions in the Mosque, which were dumb to the conquerors, still protest for the old faith, and cry aloud from barge-board and netted rafter, “Be not one of the negligent.” “God is our refuge in every time of trouble.” LOS BAÑOS--THE BATHS. The plan of these Baths is very similar to the arrangement still used throughout the East. [Illustration: CHAMBER OF REPOSE.] From the elegant little saloon at the entrance where the bathers unrobed, and whither they resorted after the bath, we pass, by a circuitous passage, in which are two smaller baths, into the general vapour-bath, paved with white marble, and lighted with openings in the form of stars, lined with glazed earthenware. This corresponds with the apartment called by the Arabs the _hararah_, or vapour-bath, and described in Lane’s _Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians_; and it was under the graceful arcades which support the dome that the bathers [Illustration: CHAMBER OF REPOSE.] underwent the attentions of the _masseuses_ who waited on them. From the great hall we pass into a smaller one, having at each end a marble tank, used for solitary ablutions. Beyond, at the present day, an accumulated heap of ruins prevents the recognition of the means for heating the bath. The upper part of the Chamber of Repose, which is supported on marble columns, forms a gallery with small divans, in which two persons, or, at most, four, could be accommodated at [Illustration: CHAMBER OF REPOSE.] the same time; from which it would appear that the bath was confined entirely to the use of the sovereign and his hareem. The floor is paved with beautiful Mosaics, which are in perfect preservation. Inscription: “What is most to be wondered at is the felicity which awaits men in this palace of delight.” Los Baños are well preserved, for they lie out of the way of ordinary ill-usage. The vapour-bath is lighted from above by small lumbreras, or “louvres.” GARDEN OF “LINDARAJA.” The _Mirador_--Prospect-chamber--of “Lindaraja” overlooks this secluded little court or garden, with its alabaster fountain, its cypress, orange, and citron trees rising from trim