The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . the sights of the place,* where cattleand horses and mules are sold, as well as every conceiv-able country product, and not a few of the coarser foreignimportations. Hard by, on the banks of the Issil, is areeking slaughter-ground, such as is always to be foundoutside these towns, and the landscape is diversified byheaps of rubbish which have raised the ground beside ittill the gate-way seems to lead into some cave. Thetrack which issues from it leads across the Tansift bya low bridge of twenty-seven arches, f and through theJabilat ridge to
The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . the sights of the place,* where cattleand horses and mules are sold, as well as every conceiv-able country product, and not a few of the coarser foreignimportations. Hard by, on the banks of the Issil, is areeking slaughter-ground, such as is always to be foundoutside these towns, and the landscape is diversified byheaps of rubbish which have raised the ground beside ittill the gate-way seems to lead into some cave. Thetrack which issues from it leads across the Tansift bya low bridge of twenty-seven arches, f and through theJabilat ridge to the plains of Rahamna and Mazagan. Insummer, though at first increased by melting snow, theTansift runs almost dry here, and its tributary the Issilaltogether so. Bab ed-Dabbagh, the Tannery Gate, is the next inorder, on the track to Sidi Rahal, Damnat, and theGlawi Pass for Tafilalt. The neighbouring tan-pits have •?• r)escril)e(l in The Afoors, ch. i. f Built originally in 1170 b) Spanish architects, according to p. 229. * p. 3 rt 296 MARRAKESH made the name of Morocco so famous that they deservea visit, and the primitive methods from which the most advanced have not widely departed are extreme-ai/ii?2g J interesting. Further round still, on the south-east comes Bab Allan, and then BabAghmat, the sole reminder, by its name, of the formermetropolis in the Urika valley towards which it this latter is the entrance to the mellah,—towhich admission is gained by way either of the RiadZitun el Jadeed or of el Kadeem (the Olive Garden, New orOld)—and on the other side of the mellah is the BabBarima, which gives access to the kasbah and the grain stores line the road, which traversesthe negro quarter peopled by the mulatto descendantsof Mulai Ismatls black troops. Past the handsome BabAgudal, on the right, the entrance to the palace, theBab Hmar or Red Gate is reached, so called onaccount of the colour in which it is painted, as it
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