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MOGOnOR--ITS INHABITANTS, ETC. 179,duty, it cannot b~t be a:ttended with considerable result. Here areaboutthirty houses of different nations of Europe, whose inmates livein an intercourse ofamity and hospitality, uninfluenced and unbrokenby the squabbles' of the parent states.Here is at present a prohibitionofany person landing oQ. anypart of the shore of the bay, save at tlie. town-gate. Whetherlt ..will be continued beyond the period of the residenceof the Sultan, now encamped near the little river and battery, isunascertained. The streets here are rectilineal, and barely wide enoughto admit a loaded camel.This last circumstance, their narrownèss,strikes the eye the more strongly, from the considerable height to whichthè houses are carried up.'fhese streets are thronged by foot-passengers,aIl in .hu1;ry, discussingapparently with most vehement gesticulation;and,the open places are filled with groups sitting in the shade,cross-Iegged, enveloped in looseclothing, and in silent gravity. Theta11 stature, rnanly countenances, and regular features of the youth, andlong ~ards of the aged of the Moors, with their light drapery fallingin redundant folds to the feet, and cast in the mûst picturesque mannerOVef the head, afford a living exemplification of the most beautiful remainsfrom the Grecian chisel.The Sultan,is the rich man of the poet, tbough not of theprophet," Diruit; cedijicat; mutat quadrata rotundis." His life is passed in constructingand dilapidating.A Genoese renegade is his present architect,who seems to have struck out a style of his own.It is light andairy, and so far harmobizes (as is not, the case with the works of thparcbitects of sorne more scienti.'fic nations) with the manners of thepeople who inhahit the structures, as thesedo with the c1imate whereintheyareplaced.lt has somewhat of the misnamed Gothie, blendedwith Roman and Arabesque, and hits quite as gooda daim asanyD1her to the denomination of composite. The streets here are 110t paved,2A~