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TRAVELS IN AFRICA.ENTRY into the CITYO! MORocco...;...The cavalcade was now fonnec!in part, in a respectable rank, by the alcaids, and amounted to aboutsome forty files; and as we approached the city our cavalry begantoexercise their leats of horsemanship.Thus weproce~dedon ourmarch to the ~apital, which was concealed from view .wi thin thevast but ,open groves of lofty· palrn-trees which occupy the horizon,while their tops present aparallel level of verdure, bright in the middaysun.Above this line of foliage, sopeculiady ·.cparaç.teristic ofplace and climate, and .to triple .height,[~s~s.the tower of ,~he :gr,fatmosque, insulated, .of dingy red, and its spire with three golden ballstJ;allsn.xed"glistening in the blaze of day. Th~ vast and suowy ·massesof Atlas seemhere almost impending, lipon th.e. Tight; i~s .P~s~ syuhowever invisible, througb the purple dusk of the atmosph