and two falls o f rain a year are sufficient to bring the crops to maturity. South o f Saffy, we come to a defile close to the road, where only one person can pass, called (Jerf el Eudee) the Jew’s Cliff, so named, (as it is reported,) from a Jew, who, in passing, slipped, and fe ll down the ca vity , which is some hundred feet deep. Hj Sixteen miles south o f Saffy, we reach the riv e r Tensift, which discharges itself into the ocean, near the ruins o f an ancient town, probably the Asama o f Ptolomy. Travellers pass the Tensift on horseback in summer, but on rafts in the rainy season, which, in passing, drift down to a square fort surrounded b y trees, 011 the opposite side o f the riv er, built b y Muley Ismael for the accommodation o f travellers. Proceeding through the plains o f Akkeermute, we discover the ruins o f a large town near the foot o f Jibbel el Heddid,* depopulated b y the plague about 50 years since ; and after a journey ®f 48 miles from the r iv e r , we reach Mogodor, built b y the Emperor Seedy Mohammed hen A b d allah ben Ismael, in 17 60, and so named from a sanctuary in the adjacent sands, called Seedi Mogodo l; but the proper name is Saweera,-f- a name g iv en b y the Emperor in allusion to its beauty, it being the o n ly town altogether o f geometrical construction in the empire. Mogodor is built on a sandy beach forming a peninsula, the foundation o f which is rocky adjoining to a chain o f lofty hills, o f moveable sand impelled b y the wind into w aves continually * These mountains are said to abound in iron, as the name expresses; they are covered with bole armoniac or red bole. t Saweera being derived from Tasaweera, which, in the African Arabic, signifies a drawing or painting.
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