The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . ab writer who washere in the fourteenth century, on the other hand, declaresthat Rabat was then almost entirely inhabited by familiesfrom Granada. The populations of Salli and Rabat have been thusestimated: Salli Rabat Washington 21,coo Arlett i4,oco Jackson 18,000 Gral^erg 23,000 27,000 Castellanos 30,000 Kerr f The writer 20,000 ••? The only proof to be offered the existence in Ralmt of a districtcalled the Haumah Bahairah (formerly Uerb bila Soma,—/.c, Mosque-lessstreet) in which may be found m
The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . ab writer who washere in the fourteenth century, on the other hand, declaresthat Rabat was then almost entirely inhabited by familiesfrom Granada. The populations of Salli and Rabat have been thusestimated: Salli Rabat Washington 21,coo Arlett i4,oco Jackson 18,000 Gral^erg 23,000 27,000 Castellanos 30,000 Kerr f The writer 20,000 ••? The only proof to be offered the existence in Ralmt of a districtcalled the Haumah Bahairah (formerly Uerb bila Soma,—/.c, Mosque-lessstreet) in which may be found many families with such un-Mohammedannames as Toledano, El Aofir, Bii Yusef, Bel Mesaod, El Haloo, Ben Brahim,Dadun, El Azrak, etc. KiLEV, p. 546. 2 Ibn el Khateeb, quoted by Gavangos in El Makkaki, bk. viii., ch. i., note 40.+ Arrived at by the computation of a well-known Moor, of 10 dwellers in each of2000 houses, with 1500 Jews. When no oil or barley comes into Salli the Govern-ment orders a third of the supply for Rabat to be sent 174 RABAT Not far n-oin tlic walls stands the prominent unfinished Hassan tower, sister to the Giralda at Seville and to the Kutubiya at Marrakesh, all of them monuments IVic Hassan ... , , , ^ , Tower. raised about the year 1200 by Ya kub el Man- sLir. * Its fretted sides are of a beautiful designin weather-worn stone, the huge blocks of which it isbuilt defying time. The ascent by an incHned plain isso gradual that a man could ride up on horse-back, hadnot the door been built up. Access can now be obtainedonly by a window some 20 ft. from the ground, towhich I once climbed bare-foot, as the Arab boys do,with my toes in the holes they had scooped, but waswell rewarded, after dislodging hundreds of pigeons, bythe view from the top. f The height I ascertained by measurement with a string to be 145 ft.; the thickness of the exterior walls being 8 ft. 6 in., and of the interior walls 5 ft. 6 Dimensions .,, /- c. ^ ? of Toiver. ^^^^
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