The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . the plain, protected by a fort apparently of great is really the exit of a subterranean river from a lowhill known as Ras el Ma or Water-head. Downbelow is a beautifully clear pool with a gravel andsandy bottom, into which falls what is thenceforwardknown as the Wad Fas, or Fez River. The whole plainabounds in excellent springs, and De el Puerto speaks ofsix hundred fountains within the Old City in his day. * El Fatuh ruled this side, and l-Vjisa the other, and each made a gateway near his palace, but the story runs that when El
The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . the plain, protected by a fort apparently of great is really the exit of a subterranean river from a lowhill known as Ras el Ma or Water-head. Downbelow is a beautifully clear pool with a gravel andsandy bottom, into which falls what is thenceforwardknown as the Wad Fas, or Fez River. The whole plainabounds in excellent springs, and De el Puerto speaks ofsix hundred fountains within the Old City in his day. * El Fatuh ruled this side, and l-Vjisa the other, and each made a gateway near his palace, but the story runs that when El Fatuh at last triumphed, he ordered the name of his brothers gate to be decapitated, J^ whence Jtsa, otherwise Gisa. It was rebuilt for the second time in 1285 by Ya-kub II. \>. 612. WATER-SUPPLY 240 Even in the hills these sprinc^s, usually tepid, are tobe found, and to the north of the plain are the hotsulphur springs of Mulai Yakiib, by someconsidered the Aqute Dacicce of the Romans, *—which arc thronged by sufferers from all parts MAIN OF THE FEZ RIVER BETWEEN THEWALLS OF THE CITY. Moliiiaii, r/tolo., Imr^ier. of Morocco, .\bout four miles from the town arc thehot springs of Khaolin, at no great distance from whichare others named after Sidi Ilarazam, who died in1163. The water of some of the springs supplying thetown is much warmer than the air in winter, and coolerin summer, although in winter the river grcnvs |uently I have seen both tepid and cold waterfrom natural sources laid on side by side in the samehouse. * Tissol, however, gives tlie A(jiiic DuciiiC as between \; aii<i Sala. 25o FEZ When the river enters the town it is led off in number-less channels, at first more or less open, which are usedto turn a number of water-mills. Every house is supplied with this running water, which,after having passed through mosques and private dwell-ings, finds its way through sewers into the lower reachesof the river, as its branches
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