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OHAPTER IV.
lIEQUINEZ.
WE passed the ruins of Volubilis and then took our last view
of the picturesque town of Muley Edris, with its rich orchards and
gardens and imposing background of savage mountains, and then
arriving gradually at the summit of a crest of rugged rock we had
our first look at the city of Mequiilez, lying away in the centre of
au enormous, roughly-undulating plain, on the southern border
of which e'l'tended east and west a fine range of evenly-disposed
hills. As we went on the road began to broaden until near
Mequinez it had reached a breadth of two hundred feet, and the
tl'8vellers had also begun to increase in number. As we wound
down the steep hillside we saw three 'small towns perched in almost
inacessible positions to our left. The country was rich but wholly
treeless, excepting such occasional orchards of olives, pomegranates
and figs as hl&