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sociations to Cranford and Mr. Winkle. We found or fancied other Orientalisms. A visitor claps his hands at the head of the courtyard stairs, to summon an attendant. The solid chimneys, with windows in them, are precisely those described by Urquhart in his delightful Pillars of Hercules ; so are the gardens, divided into clean separate cells by tall hedges of cane; so is the game of ball played by the boys in the street, under the self-same Moorish name of arri; so is the mode of making butter, by tying up the cream in a goat-skin and kicking it till the butter comes. Even the architecture fused into one all our notions of Gothic and of Moorish, and gave great plausibility to Urquhart's ingenious argument for the latter as the true original. And it is a singular fact that the Mohammedan phrase Oxalc, Would to Allah, is still the most familiar ejaculation in the Portuguese language, and the habitual phrase by which religious aspiration is expressed in books. We were treated wi