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CI'l'Y OF J\1:0ROCCO.plensrJig, though onIy outlines, than any we .have received froma modernhand, clown to the present date of being here.Thus the poet perfectlycoincides with the scene around us when he says," ---Tantum Maurusire gentiRobol'a divitire; quarumnort noverat usum, .Sed citri contenta èornis vivebat,ct umbra."rrimes and terms may have changed, butJlere isaba;sis of.con~istency,If a golden age has disappeared here in one sense, progress has beenampIy made in itinanother.Corruption may engraft itself upon primitivemanners, but these latter will remain whcre fpunded in Nature.MoraIlife certainIy baR not improvedin the change.Investigation has,bot yet come toa due definition of these botanical terms; but hereseems no l'easol1 to r'dnge in quest!ofnew matte}', when the fact come,splainlybefol'e nsin the presentday. 811Ch is now actuallj the llloqe oflife~CITY of MORoeco.-.The Bocanum Hemerum of the ancients \Vas-situated somewhel'e about this part of the plain, and by the radicalterm is indicated to have been a seat of govemment.Thuswe find aBogh Ud,a Moorishking, attbe battle behveen .Cœsar and Pompey.Eut ther~ ,vas a180 on the Maurbeya river, \,hichdiscbargesat Azamor,a vcryancientcily named Ta:MaroG.Among these radical terms hereis ground-work tOI' mueh confusion ina non.literate language.Butlet not thecla8sicalsystem of deriving ancient words froll] (quoad them)modern te1"mshopelo avai1itself thereof; here itmay rest assured theprospectis utterlj comfortless.'l:'he radical topographic tenu fneansanjwide e~panse offlat: .land orwater. It was appropriated to thistract lon1g!ere the Marabou fanatics, ortheir propt~et, were thoughtTlie general diffusion of a word through the .ramifications ofproves the depth of its foot; and tbis is the case in regard to main 10-