The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . f golde vnderit; which golden spheares are so fastened vnto gm s the saide iron barre that the greatest is lowest,and the least highest, which spheares have givenrise to much discussion and some confusion with a similarset on the kasbah mosque tower. * Both sets seem tohave roused the cupidity of impecunious ameers andothers, but still they remain—or their successors do —for when some years ago they had to be restored after is said by Leo to be visible from its summit. The west face measures12 m. 30 c. across, or 3 m. 20 c. less tlian that o
The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . f golde vnderit; which golden spheares are so fastened vnto gm s the saide iron barre that the greatest is lowest,and the least highest, which spheares have givenrise to much discussion and some confusion with a similarset on the kasbah mosque tower. * Both sets seem tohave roused the cupidity of impecunious ameers andothers, but still they remain—or their successors do —for when some years ago they had to be restored after is said by Leo to be visible from its summit. The west face measures12 m. 30 c. across, or 3 m. 20 c. less tlian that of Rabat. For illustrationsee The Moorish Empire^ p. 77. * Captain John Smith understood that these golden Bals of Affricawere on the Christian church—surely the mistake of some copyist. 20 ^o6 MARRAKESH a gale, they were found to be but copper gilt. * Jacksonestimates their weight at 1250 lbs. English, but Fellow,who makes them four in number, puts them down as1250 lbs., and claims a place among those unsuccessfulin attempting to steal THE KUTUBIYA MOSQUE. Photograph by the Hon. E. IV. Loch. «? Torres, however, (1535) declared these to be silver, and those of thekasbah gold. * t These four globes are, by computation, seven hundred pounds, Barbary weight, each pound consisting of twenty-four ounces, which make in all 1050 pounds English; and frequent attempts had been made Fellows to take them away, but without success; for, as the notion Account. ran, any attempting it were soon glad to desist from it, they being affrightened, and especially at their near approach to them, in a very strange and surprising manner, and seized with an extraordinary faintness and trembling, hearing at the same time a great i-umbling noise, like as if the whole fabric was tumbling down about their ears; so that, in great confusion, they all returned faster than they advanced. This did I often hear, yet had I a very strong itching to try the PP- 79-8°- THE GOLDEN BALLS 307 He says tha
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