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TRAVELS IN AFRICA.mer-house, of several apartments, around a hall wherein a fountainplays. And the lodging-rooms ~djDining are clark and cool, theformera circumstance of no smallluxury here. The fruit-trees, chiefly orange,lemon, and pomegranate, are now in bearing; and no object can heseen heyond the walls of this retreat, save the snowy peaks of MountAtlas. As much pains seems to have been taken to ohtain humidityfor tbis garden, as we see employed with us at home to procure aspect.The esculent part is studiously sunk and leveHed, to receive and retainit. Sbade seems no nuisance, but rather a nurse to the tender crop be..low; and these square comparttnents for produce (the soilis a black.vegetable mould)' are forfued by raised walks of a breadth of severalfeet, of masonry, four or five feet above their level. These walks beingvery neatly incrusted, over their whole surface, with gay painted smalltaes, the grouncl whereof is white; it may be judged how effec'tualthisarrangement must he for the purpose of retaining humidity, which infact is aH that it is here requisite to produce. Being arrived thus withinthe royal precincts, forçsuch these are, about the hour of one è/clock,the Sultan's principalofficers came, by his m~jesty's command, to bidus welcome. The scene around reminded us of Sir William Temple'saccount of the Moorish monarch of hisday.-His words are: "Thusthe present King of J\!lorocco, after having subdued aH his eompetitors,passes his life in a country villa ;-gives audience in a grove of orangetreesplanted arnong pU,rIing streams ;"-a description conveying aH thegrateful impressions of rep()se and picturesque, and which it is to behoped retnained UnaUoyed by any disagreeah1.e· features in th,e background.-Allconesponds essentially with the accnunts which the ancientshave hancled down to us; aU which, howeverdesultory, appear,p.erfectly correct, and furnish a picture far more accurate, as weIl as