10 Rivers o j Morocco, low water from the ocean, but at flood tide it is not fordable. Between the mouth o f the river Messa and that o f Suse, is a road-stead called T om 6 e ; the country is inhabited by the Woled Abbusebali Arabs, who informed me, when I went there, during the interregnum, with the (K h a l i f ) Vice-regent Mohammed ben Delemy, b y o rder o f the (Sh er re ef) Prince, that British and other vessels often took in water th e r e : it is called b y the A ra b s (Sebah biure) the place o f seven wells, o f which wells three on ly remain, and these, we found to contain excellent water. A fte r inspecting the place, and the nature o f the roadstead, we returned to the Vice regent’s castle in Shtuka. Concerning this remarkable sea-port it would be inexpedient at present to disclose more. River Akassa.— This river is navigable to Noon, above which I t becomes a small stream, fordable iu various places,; it has been called b y some Wed Noon, i. e. the river o f Noon, but the proper name is W ed Akassa ; the word Wedinoon is applied to the adjacent territory. The Mountains o f W est and South Barbary are the A tlas and its various branches, which receive different names, according to the provinces in which th e y are situated. The g reater Atlas, or main chain o f these mountains, extends from (Jibbel d ’Zatute) A p e ’s H ill to Shtuka and A it Bamaran, jn Lower Suse, passing about thirty miles eastward o f the c ity o f Marocco., where they are immensely high, and covered with snow throughout the year. On a clear day, this part o f the A tla s appears, at Mo- godor, a distance o f about a hundred and forty miles, in the form o f a saddle ; and is visible at sea, several leagues off the coast. These mountains are extremely fertile in many places,
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