The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description (1901) (14781216215)

Identifier: landofmoorscompr00meak (find matches)
Title: The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Meakin, Budgett
Subjects: Morocco -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : S. Sonnenschein & co., lim. New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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iver. ^^^^ ^ ° ^^- passage between. In the centre there are five storeys of single rooms,besides the ground floor, and had it been completedthere would probably have been seven or eight, with asmaller tower above, and a promenade for the muedhdhinall round. It is said that at one time a determinedattempt was made to destroy it, but that its soliditywas such that the idea had to be abandoned. At presentit forms the land-mark by which vessels steer whenapproaching Rabat. Its position is 34° 3 30 N.,6 48 50 \V. At its base are many massive rough marble columns, * Illustrations of all these are given in The MoorisJi Empire.^ Ch. 5. TheMuwahhadi period. t But not being a sailor, the descent was another matter, not so mucliso the perpendicular portion, as the initial horizontal journey along theface of the wall, gripping by fingers and toes in holes scooped betweenthe great stones, from the window-sill to the wall by which the ascenthad been made, an interesting but unpleasant experience.
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MOSQUli TOWER AT SHELLA.(Suiinoiiiitccl by Sluiks Xcst.i Photograph by yohn Frosty Esq. 176 RABAT erect or in scattered sections, which are said to haveonce numbered 360, partly surrounding a largeThe Hassan quadrangle formed by the ruined walls of whatwas designed to be a gigantic mosque. Under-neath are extensive vaults or cisterns, and in the vicinityare traces of aqueducts and other buildings. . A little further out from the town are the ruins ofSheila, the first town to proclaim Mulai Idrees, probablythe Roman colony which seems to have^^ given its name to Salli; perhaps a Carthaginian settlement. Jackson had heard that the tombs of twoRoman Generals were here, revered as those of saints,but this was most likely a confused idea of the BeniMarin tombs which lend special interest to the spot,though Roman and other ancient coins have been foundhere. Among the few remains of antiquity are somestone vaults, an arched canal, perhaps Roman, and apiece of old wall. Otherwise, although pi