written several remarks on Mr. Hbrneman’s Journal, which I intended to give in an appendix, but as they might create ill- w ill, and in vo lve me in useless controversy, I have suppressed them. W ith regard to the following Work, it has been' m y endeavo u r throughout, to g iv e the reader a clear account o f the present state o f the Empire o f Marocco, and o f its commercial relations with the interior, as well as with Europe : on the latter some readers may perhaps think I have enlarged too much , but it was m y wish to be particular, on that subject, and to shew the advantages which this country might, and ought to derive from an extensive trade with Barbary. In other respects, I h a v e been as concise as possible, introducing little or nothing o f what has been satisfactorily detailed, b-y late writers on the same subject. In the Map o f Marocco, I h a ve given the encampments o f the various tribes o f Arabs, and omitted* such towns and villages as are found in modern maps, bu t which now no longer exist. T h e track o f the caravans through the Desert to Timbuctoo, is, together with, the account o f that c ity and the adjacent country, given from sources o f information which I had-every reason to believe correct. T he engravings are from drawings made on the spot by myself;, but from the extreme jealousy o f the natives, particularly those o f the interior provinces, and the consequent difficulty o f taking views without being discovered, trifling inaccuracies may have been committed in some o f them. Some apology ought perhaps to be made for m y language; but any defect, in this respect, will, I trust be excused, when it is recollected that a plain relation o f facts, and not an elegant composition, was all I had in view . Some readers, probably may express surprise, that I have said nothing o f the political history o f the c o u n t r y ; b u t this I have reserved for a future publication should the present one meet with the approbation o f the pub lic.
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