LETTER VII.

_Emperor's March to Marocco.--Doubles the Customs' Duties of

Mogodor.--The Governor, Prince Abd El Melk, with the Garrison and

Merchants of Santa Crux, ordered to go to the Court at

Marocco.--They cross the Atlas Mountains.--Description of the

Country and Produce.--Dangerous Defile in the Mountains through

which the Author passed.--Chasm in the Mountain.--Security of Suse

from Marocco, originating in the narrow Defile in the Mountains of

Atlas.--Extensive Plantations of Olives.--Village of Ait

Musie.--Fruga Plains.--Marocco Plains.--Fine Corn.--Reception at

Marocco, and Audience with the Emperor.--Imperial Gardens at

Marocco.--Prince Abd El Melk's magnificent Apparel, reprobated by

the Sultan.--The Port of Santa Cruz, shut to the Commerce of

Europe, and the Merchants ordered to Mogodor.--The Prince banished

to the _Bled Shereef_ or Country of Princes, viz., Tafilelt, of the

Palace at Tafilelt.--Abundance of Dates.--Face of the Country.

--Magnificent Groves of Palm or Date-trees.--Faith and Integrity of

the Inhabitants of Tafilelt.--Imperial Gardens at Marocco.--Mode of

Irrigation.--Attar of Roses, vulgarly called Otto of Roses (Attar

being the Word signifying a Distillation.)--State of Oister Shells,

on the Top of the Mountains of Sheshawa, between Mogodor and

Marocco, being a Branch of the Atlas.--Description of the Author's

Reception on the Road from Marocco to Mogodor.--Of the Elgrored, or

Sahara of Mogodor._

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