Suse; Elala is three days' journey from Santa Cruz, horse
travelling, making together 180 miles: add for distance from the
foot of the Elala mountains to the snow, 60 miles, and the Atlas in
Lower Suse will be seen at the distance of 240 miles, or 207
geographical miles.

Thus, from Santa Cruz to the }
foot of the Atlas mountains, in the} 180 miles.
district of Elala, in Lower Suse }

Add for distance from the foot }
of the Elala mountains to the } 60
snow }
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So that the Atlas in Lower Suse, }
being seen at a distance of } 240

Or 207 geographical miles, must have an altitude of 28,980 feet.

On the north side of the city of Marocco is a gate called _Beb El
Khummes_, and near it is held, every Thursday, a market called soke
_El Khummes_; at which immense quantities of horses, camels, mules,
asses, oxen, sheep, goats, wheat and barley are sold; oils, gums,
95 almonds, dates, raisins, figs, bees' wax, honey, skins, &c. &c.
&c.; also, slaves, male and female. Such a horse as would cost in
London 50_l._, sells here for 50 dollars; a good mule sells for the
same, viz. 50 dollars; a bull, 12 dollars; a cow, 15 dollars;
sheep, a dollar and a half, each; a goat, a dollar. Very fine large
grained wheat, which increases one-fifth in the grinding, sells at
one dollar per saa, or about half a dollar per Winchester bushel.
The slaves are conducted through the market by the auctioneer
(_delel_), who exclaims, occasionally, (_khumseen reeal aal
zeeada_, i.e.) "50 dollars on the increase," till he finds no one
will advance; when he goes to the owner and declares the price
offered; the owner then decides if he will sell or not; if he
sells, the money is paid immediately, but if not, he takes his
slave away with him, and tries him again the next market-day, or
waits in expectation that this wretched article of trade will rise
in value.

A stranger passing through Marocco would consider it an irregular
miserable town; but the despotic nature of the government induces
every individual to secrete or conceal his opulence; so that the
houses of the gentry are surrounded with a shabby wall, often
broken or out of repair, at a considerable distance from the