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MûROCCO--'l"fS POPULATION AND AltEA. 287and pètperidicl~lat,-wasincrusted withsmall richly.painted tiles, green,white, and black, in very characteristic patterns-the manufactures ofJ.\tI,equinez and Fez. The whole appearance of the place is most melancholy.,This palace is, as far as can be judged, a vast tract, containingthusinclosttresin tlie form of parallelograms: the number of these issaidto be six, but if left to the guess they wouJd he taken at considerablymore. Amongst them are detached buildings and gardens;Building up and pul1ing down being the Saltan's principal method ofkilling time, half of every palace is usually a heap of ruins.The walls of the city of Morocco inc1ude a vast space.-Since it doesnot fall to the lot of many ta be able ta ascertain how much, there isgreatscopeleft for hyperbole and incredulity. As here is nofauxbourg,it could easily be a!Scertained by riding round them ou the outside; towhich probably no objection \Vonlel be made. 'fhe towers are said tostand at distances of a hundred yards, and perhaps this is not far fromthe reality. Their number, with the general figure of the place, wauldthus furnish data for determining nearly the quantity of ground intlosed.But the area, even if justly calcnlated, would throw little lightupon the question of population. The waste ground about the greatmosque seems not less than thirty acres. Arabs encamp now in thistract,like gipsies upoq a common in England. Yet this was onceunder'buildings. The palace cannot occupy much less space, and theSultan has.vario'us .gardens oesides/ithose of his residence, and manyextensive ones tooaj'e in thèpôssession of his great men. 'fhe place ofexecutions isa largeexpl?tnse.; and tbere are besicles endre tracts, sorùeunder dilapidations of I;ecent date, sable under groves, of palm-trees.How.numerous are the'Jews Hel'e!' ho'W populous their quarter!' YetnumericaUy they constitute buta very sman part of the population ofMoroeco. The Crowds of populace, and thei1' ohtrul'iiveness as elSe-