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From a photograph from the Service des Beanx-Arts au Maroc.Sale.Entrance of the Medersa.superb, follow the curve of the cliff. Onthe landward side they are interruptedby a gate-tower resting on one of themost nobly decorated of the horseshoearches that break the mighty walls ofMoroccan cities. Underneath the towerthe vaulted entrance turns, Arab fashion,at right angles, profiling its red arch8against darkness and mystery. Thisbending of passages, so characteristic adevice of the Moroccan builder, is like anarchitectural expression of the tortuoussecret soul of the land.Outside the Kasbah a narrow footpathis squeezed between the walls andthe edge of the cliff. Toward sunset it