The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . from the ports to the royal cities, afterwardstraversed so often by foreign embassies, the early re-corders of which, as Windus in 1721 and Braithwaitein 1728, added not a little to our knowledge of the coun-try. The Christian slaves, with the exception of Mouette(1681) and Fellow (1735), did little to improve our notionsof Moroccan geography, but the latter left itineraries todistant parts, which, though not always accurate, at leastattest the genuineness of his narrative. Most authors ofthis class were concerned more deeply with the hardsh
The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . from the ports to the royal cities, afterwardstraversed so often by foreign embassies, the early re-corders of which, as Windus in 1721 and Braithwaitein 1728, added not a little to our knowledge of the coun-try. The Christian slaves, with the exception of Mouette(1681) and Fellow (1735), did little to improve our notionsof Moroccan geography, but the latter left itineraries todistant parts, which, though not always accurate, at leastattest the genuineness of his narrative. Most authors ofthis class were concerned more deeply with the hardships oftheir lot than with the collection of information. Wrecked /LXISTING MAPS to seamen, such as Adams (1810), Riley {1815), Puddock(1818) Cochelet (1819) and Jannasch (1886) have donebetter. The early maps are chiefly from the descriptions ofLeo Africanus and Marmol, and up to the beginnin^,^ ofthe present century the majority of the nameson the North African maps were from thesesources, with a few from Idreesi, while their lists of towns Miifs. AN ATLAS VALLEW(The (Vheghdya.) Pholograph hy Dr. Riithiiick. long since lost sight of were gravely and unsuspectinglyquoted by Richardson as late as 1859! Of the manymodern maps, that of Beaudoin,—prepared for the FrenchWar Office in 1848, on account of the ignorance disclosedby the war of 1844—chiefly compiled from native infor-mation and itineraries, though perforce inaccurate, isvaluable; but we have yet to see the production of a mapwhich shall only embody what is positiveh known, or at 20 PHYSICAL features; least distinguish between that and mere borrowed behef. *Even the EngHsh War Office maps of 1889 and 1890are replete with glaring errors. The most detailed maps of Morocco are Renous; thatof Beaudoin, referred to ; Ch. Lasaillys (1888 etc.), a mostuseful compilation; and Guido Coras; the last two ofwhich include the work of Tissot and De Foucauld. Amore recent French publication is the map by De Flotte deRoquevaire, f we
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