The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . sold, or civil discords amongst ourselvesarise) will find it a very comfortable Place, yea, andvery pleasant, too.* To most who came, the placeitself afforded great attraction : a most odoriferous smellentertained us, which I conceive to be a mixture of » In 1668 Col. Norwood, then , wrote ••Revolution in Barbary from North to Soutli soe violent, anil all in favour of Kinjj Tafiletta. - Davis, p. 201. Col. vol. iv. * Clarendon, Aiitohiflgraphy, vol iii., p. 313. Diary, Sept. 28th, 1663. All the passages in this diary
The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . sold, or civil discords amongst ourselvesarise) will find it a very comfortable Place, yea, andvery pleasant, too.* To most who came, the placeitself afforded great attraction : a most odoriferous smellentertained us, which I conceive to be a mixture of » In 1668 Col. Norwood, then , wrote ••Revolution in Barbary from North to Soutli soe violent, anil all in favour of Kinjj Tafiletta. - Davis, p. 201. Col. vol. iv. * Clarendon, Aiitohiflgraphy, vol iii., p. 313. Diary, Sept. 28th, 1663. All the passages in this diary bearing on IanRicr arccollected in The Times 0/ Morocco, Nos. 155-7. Letters of 25/15 Ap., 1664. 124 TANGIER pleasant scents arising from the variety of sweet treesand herbs growing there wild. But a truer note wasstruck by a poetaster who left on record: August the Tenth we sailed away, And anchored at Tangier next day: A Place the English now possess On the Barbarian Shoar it is: Tis fortified very strong Or else we should not keep it f - *. ^i,4ii/ ^^:^7h liESSS^SgSSrSi; MOLE AND HARBOUR OF TANGIER IN and destroyed by the English. Fi om a contemforaiy afficial Plmi. Teviot, at least, was not to outlive his two years, forit was only a few months after the letters quoted werewritten that he was cut off, and war was re-and Mole newed. The Portuguese fortifications were in- sufficient for the new state of things, and notonly were the town walls put in repair and towers added, ^ Baltiiokpe, The Streiglits Voyage, ENGLISH GARRISON 125 but a line of forts was erected outside—from the Jewsriver across to Old Tangier—which at last numberedfifteen. Between 1665 and 1668 were so spent,£•3000 going for the repair of the Marshan Gate, orPeterborough Tower. In addition to this the mole wascommenced, on which 1000 men worked daily, and Tan-gier was made a free port. Hut the Spaniards objectedas much as the Moors, and actually hanged one m
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