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also hemp. T h e tobacco called Mequinasi, so much esteemed for making snuff, is the produce o f the province o f Benihassen, as well as the country adjacent to the c ity o f Mequinas, PROVINCES OF TEMSENA, SHAWIA, DUQUELLA, ABDA, SHEDMA; AND THE DISTRICT OF MAROCCO. These are most productive in c o rn ; the crop o f one year would be sufficient for the consumption o f the whole empire, provided all the ground capable o f producing wheat and barley were to be sown. These fine provinces abound in horses and horned c a t t le ; their flocks are numerous, and the horses o f A b d a are o f the mose select breed in the country. T h e ca v a lry o f T emsena is the best appointed o f the empire, excepting the black troops o f the Emperor, ca lled Abeed Seedy Bukarrie. Tw o falls o f rain in A b d a are sufficient to bring to maturity a good crop o f w h e a t ; nor does the soil require more. The water-melons o f Duquella are o f a prodigious size, and indeed e v e r y th in g thrives in this prolific provin ce : horses, horned cattle, the flocks, nay even the dogs and cats, all appear in sood condition. T h e inhabitants are, for the most part, a labo- Or ious and trading people, and great speculators: they grow tobacco for the markets o f Soudan and Timbuctoo. N early midway between Saffee and Marocco is a large salt lake, from w h ich many camels are daily loaded with salt for the interior. T h e province o f Slfedma produces wheat and b a r le y ; its fruits are not so rich as those o f the north, o ro fS u se ; it abounds however in cattle. O f goats it furnishes annually an incalculable number, the skins o f which form a principal article o f exportation from the port o f Mogodor; and such is the animosity and opposition often among the merchants there, that the y h ave sometimes given as much for the skin, as the animal itself was sold for. Honey, wax, and tobacco are produced in this p ro v in c e ; the two former in great abund an ce ; also gum arabic, called b y the Arabs A ik T o lh, but o f an inferior quality to that o f the Marocco district. PROVINCE OF HAHA. Haha is a country o f great extent, interspersed with mountains and v a lley s , hills and dales, and inhabited b y tw e lv e Kabyles o f Shelluhs. This is the first province, from the shores o f the Mediterranean, in which villages and w alled habitations are met with, scattered through the c o u n t ry ; the before mentioned provinces (with the exception o f the sea-port towns and the cities o f Fas, Mequinas, Marocco, and Muley Idris Zerone) being altogether inhabited b y Arabs liv in g in tents. T h e houses o f Haha are built o f stone, each having a tower, and are erected on elevated situations, forming a pleasing v iew to the tra ve ller . Here we find forests o f the argan tree, which produces olives, from the kernel o f which the Shelluhs express an o il,* much superior to butter for frying fish; it is also employed economic a lly for lamps, a pint o f it burning n ea rly as long as double the quantity o f olive or sal lad oil. W a x , gum-sandrac and arabic, almonds, bitter and sweet, and oil o f olives, are the productions of this picturesque province, besides grapes, watermelons, citrons, pomgranates, oranges, lemons, limes, pears, apricots, and other fruits. Barley is more abundant than wheat. • This oil possesses a powerful smell, which is extracted from it by boiling with it an onion and the crumb of a loaf; without this preparation it is said to possess qualities productive of leprous affection. D


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