The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . tifies to its discovery in Sus. Ibn Haukalwrote of gold mines near Sajilmasa; and Grabergwent so far as to describe it as found in quartz orcalcareous spar, chiefly in grains, but sometimes inflakes; and at Ida-oo-ltilt, in Sus, in conjunctionwith copper. That quartz abounds in various regionsis certain; Hodgkin * describes huge blocks of it southof the Jabllat range as resembling new white buildingsor great blocks of quarried stone, the ground beingstrewed with fragments. Leared also records a legendwith regard to buried gold in a neighbour
The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . tifies to its discovery in Sus. Ibn Haukalwrote of gold mines near Sajilmasa; and Grabergwent so far as to describe it as found in quartz orcalcareous spar, chiefly in grains, but sometimes inflakes; and at Ida-oo-ltilt, in Sus, in conjunctionwith copper. That quartz abounds in various regionsis certain; Hodgkin * describes huge blocks of it southof the Jabllat range as resembling new white buildingsor great blocks of quarried stone, the ground beingstrewed with fragments. Leared also records a legendwith regard to buried gold in a neighbouring districtabounding with quartz, near Mzodia, off the MogadorMarrakesh road. Three small isolated hills called KodiatAthus were pointed out as the treasure hoards of theNazarene after whom they are named, the entrance to ?•? The late Kaid Silva. t As the mention in Raod el Kartas (p. 277) of mines worked in1154 on the road from Fez to Marrakesh. p. 21. - p 31- P- 89- * p. 117. See Beauimier, in the Bui. Soc. Geog., Paris, 1868, p. Iftt^Dwj/ll^V^fJl , .., ON TMK ^Moorisli Government Officials.) Dra-vn hy K. Catoii Wooihille. 28 MINERAL RESOURCES which is open but once a year Jackson, too, hadheard of a gold mine on the south side of the Massa inSus, the mouth of which was obstructed by immovablestones, of which the natives still speak. - Similar tradi-tions lurk around many natural grottos and strangeformations, whose awe-inspiring recesses are unfathomedby the credulous natives, in whose minds they are in-variably associated with Rum -foreigners ,—treasureand devils. A much more certain source of the goldwhich was once exported from this Empire was the tradeacross the Sahara with Timbuctoo, where gold dust wasreceived for salt and European imports. Silver, also, has been reported by various writers as found in the bluish soil and sand of the Massa; in rich mines at Elala and Shtuka; at Frase- Stlver. ? ,, gma, near Agadir ; at Rakendor, six dayssouth
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