CYPRESS COURT IN THE GENERALIFE.
GALLERY OF THE ACEQUIA COURT IN THE GENERALIFE.
shape of a warrior mounted on a steed, with a shield and levelled spear in his hands. Al-makkarì tells us that he read in the manuscript of a learned Moorish historian the following anecdote concerning it: “I was told by the Faquih Sìdì Hasan ... that he was present at the taking down of the talisman, known as the weather-cock, which once stood on the top of the old Kassabah—fortified enclosure—at Granada, and was removed on account of the improvements and repairs about to be made in that building. I saw it with my own eyes; it was of heptagonal shape, and bore the following Arabic inscription in verse:
“The palace at fair Granada presents to the eye of the observer a talisman turning round with the succession of time.