The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . , the track is crossed at a great height by a finestone aqueduct which runs to the north endof the town, having brought the water from ^ Ismir, about ten miles distant. When it enters the town itis used for washing clothes, the stream running in anopen groove in the masonry, about one foot wide andtwo deep. The building of this aqueduct has beenascribed by many to the Romans, but, judging from acareful inspection, I am of opinion that if they had anyhand in it originally, it has been at least rebuilt by theMoors, f Close by the gr
The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . , the track is crossed at a great height by a finestone aqueduct which runs to the north endof the town, having brought the water from ^ Ismir, about ten miles distant. When it enters the town itis used for washing clothes, the stream running in anopen groove in the masonry, about one foot wide andtwo deep. The building of this aqueduct has beenascribed by many to the Romans, but, judging from acareful inspection, I am of opinion that if they had anyhand in it originally, it has been at least rebuilt by theMoors, f Close by the great archway under which theroad runs over the bare face of the rock, arc extensivequarries. ??? The origin of the veneration was the part played by S. bin IVashirin resisting the Spaniards in 1260. t In the Raoil cl Kmids is recorded tlie bringing in of the Ain Cihabulaliin 1150 by Abd el Mumin.^ /Jveatinge says the main aqueductwas the work of an English renegade,^ wlio probably repaired it. Dan, p. 435. 2 p. 379. a Vol. ii., p. jti. II. ANCIWKAGE 163 The old water-port of Salli is now \\vj\\ and dry,separated from the present bed of the river by a widestretch of sand: it was restored by MulaiIsniail. Docks also formerly existed here, andvessels were built for the rovers with wood from a forestwhich then stretched between this town and believed that the sea was once twenty to twenty-five feet higher than at present, and spoke of the ruinsof an older town on an island There is too high abar at the mouth of the river to allow vessels of morethan about two hundred tons to enter, but there is goodanchorage on the Rabat side, when once across. * Steamers lie outside, a good distance from the shore,and communication with the port is maintained by meansof lighters, great heavy boats of genuine nativebuild, manned by sixteen to twenty descen- ^^><:horaoc. dants of the rovers, who are still called sailors, bycourtesy, that being an hereditary title in Morocc
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