The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . ose of Jabilat ( Mountlets) parallel to the GreatAtlas, which cut off the Marrakesh plain orthe Jebel Akhdar (Green Mountams ) of r/atwcs. Dukalla and the Jebel Hadeed ( Iron Moun-tain) in Abda, so-called from the ore it contains, oncerudely worked. * A peculiarity of the plains near Mar-rakesh is the presence of camel-back flat-topped hillsof limestone and marls, with tabular masses of chalce-dony, rising to some 1850 ft., or about 200 ft. above thegeneral level. Then through generally follow-ing the coast, is a long line of bold
The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . ose of Jabilat ( Mountlets) parallel to the GreatAtlas, which cut off the Marrakesh plain orthe Jebel Akhdar (Green Mountams ) of r/atwcs. Dukalla and the Jebel Hadeed ( Iron Moun-tain) in Abda, so-called from the ore it contains, oncerudely worked. * A peculiarity of the plains near Mar-rakesh is the presence of camel-back flat-topped hillsof limestone and marls, with tabular masses of chalce-dony, rising to some 1850 ft., or about 200 ft. above thegeneral level. Then through generally follow-ing the coast, is a long line of bold escarpments, evidentlyonce the limit of the ocean, up-raised bed. of the * 2470 feci (riiomsoii). See illustration, p. 29.\ Anglice .ibouiuliutj in slieep. rH\ SICA L FEA Tl RES later tertiary period, may yet be studied in its naked-ness along the road from Mogador to Mazagan. Saltlakes exist between Marrakesh and Saffi, in Abda, fedby saliferous springs in the surrounding red shales, whilemany of the smaller streams from the Atlas are THE MOROCCO COAST NEAR SAFFI.(Province of Abda.) Photograph by Ethoard Lce^ Esq. For some distance back from the coast runs a speciallyfertile strip, chiefly confined to this old seabed, beyond which the all but treeless landis sadly denuded and barren, though rich when addition to occasional wells and springs, these provincesare here and there provided with cisterns (mitfeeahs),either built of masonry or excavated in the solid rock,but too often they are in a crumbling or neglectedcondition. The lack of trees is one of the most re-grettable features of the Moroccan plains, but trees tothe mind of the natives mean shelter for robbers, and THE MOORISH PORTS n the Arab is only brave when the coast is clear. Never-theless these plains afford good sport with greyhoundsand barbs, jackal, wild boar, gazelle, and fox beingeasily found, with partridges and hares inabundance, not to speak of tiie greater andlesser bustard, the gold
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