I fancy, as the idea of the Mission building with its rectangular grounds, generally walled, came from Spain, that the mosque, with its square enclosure and houses for its attendants, was its model.

The Moors of Spain have left their impress behind them in architecture as well as in other things.

They borrowed from Constantinople, and the City of the Golden Horn has extended its influence in one way and another over all the civilised world.

But Dolores is crumbling, and its services, still held, and its "Bells," of which Bret Harte sang so sweetly years ago, can not arrest its decay.

In it is seen "the dying glow of Spanish glory," which once, like a cimeter, flashed forth here.