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well grown and fOl'tTIedACCOUNT' OF THE l\10UNTAINEERS. 335mep, with the features light, curled beards,and fair (reckled complexions of the temperate c1imates of Europe.rr:beyspoke a language totally unintelligible to the 1\Ioors~.Thomas Myers, had tTIarri~da \Voman from that country, and had residedthere ft·equently.Our Alcaid,His details upon the subject were ample and;minute.'fhe women are èonsidered beauties throughout these countries;but taste hefe IS notonly whimsicaI, but contradictory;........and degu6­tibus.,&c.-The mountain is traversable by various passes. It is saidthatthe easiest route is by Fez, and that from this place it occupies threedaysto!reaèh the south-east opening.Probably it isfifty miles across.......It mi:ght:he thoughtthat the ardour of botany should have induced'8()fflÎ}eof!the votaries oftha:tscience to explore in a direction whi@h promisessnch richreturns. .And' assurèdly toa fossllist these tracts mustpresent matter of the highest interest,and iriterest l'Ising "\Vith the scale·!.hisrese~rchesat theexpenseofanother.Science is never ungrateful.extend u"pon.·But it is Ilot liberalto enhance one science·Both are worthy of our fulÎest. devotion~,The naturalist,"His life exempt from public haunts,Finas tongues in trees, books in the running brooks"Sermons in stones, and good in every thing."SOtTIe people say that the mountaineers are by no means 80 inimicalito Christian!; as the Môors would represent them to be.To the Moorishgovernment they are deêidedly so, from a very natural principle,-the'feelingthemselvesmuch better without it. As' to the local circum.stances,some mention the snowy region as occupying two thitds ofAtlas: but this Jiîustmëan of latitude, not elevation ; and this is saidto be the case in summer. In winter the cold is extreme, and the roads*'For Shellu, see'Chellier's Vocabulary.