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· ~96 TRAVELS iN AFRICA.dictated it. But defence has always been (1 governing principle, {I,'omthe time architecture advanced so as to be thus appropriated.It Wasa natural consequence; 'but people wished to connect convenience andbeauty- therewith. Hence grew the castellated taste, which pervades theancientArabesque, fritfered to a cettain degree, but obviOlJS, and eleganttoo.To convey a cheerful idea, buildings. must be preserved in themostperfect orcier ; put decay without dil~pidation,by breaking thesurfaces and softening the outlines, gives to a building a beauty beyond.the reach of art. And to this pleasing state, the architecture of ~Io...fOCqO of Arabesque, or, as it may becalled here, ancient style, tendswith a m05t happy ,rapidity.The modern. domestie architecture hemhas no military ideas of ornament; nor has the milita.ry archite~ture.anydeeoration, possessing much of the eharadet of that of the Romans,~hard in outline and paltry in effeet.Theembattlements and,gates. ofMor6cco are very rieh in ornament here, tne restoftheworkusuallyplain,.Little has been as yet said of the J ews, frequently as they presentthemselves hem to a stranger's notice. Noneèan. be more importa1\tamong the people of this country to a European, for on. them he isohligedin almost every respect todepend.said ,he lS to li\r.e.By them il may almost beThey afford a. lamentable instance of the depth t,owhich politieal degradation Dlay moral1y debase human nature.Thefa.cts will speak for the causes. Under aIl their vexations, their honourableattachment to their' religion is as inflexible as elsewhere.Christians renegade daily; or, if they do not, it is fQr wallt of en­·couragement: but such a thing is unknown among the JC\vs. Jt isprobable, however, 1Vlohomrnedism would not permit ·itself to be poIlutedby the introduction ofa Jew convert, any more than it wouldfeela triu.filph in making one. However, they perf()rm their ritt;f'al illîch,eirsynagogues herè, to the honour ofŒe establ;shed te1~gion, unmolested