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T AFILET AND ITS PRODUCE. 343They takewith them blankets of the manufacture of.Fez, tobacco, andsaIt. Theil" great return is in the human traffie-boys and girls! Theil'chief suffering is in the want .ofwater. According to the accounts of personsbest acquainted with Tafilet, theproduct of that country is ehieflydates, the revenue itself being paid in this article. of produce. The Sultanhas,.in one plantation, thirty thousand date-bearing palrnslt mllsthe supposed the produce of a tree is very considerable, for this numberdoes not sound 80 enormous for a royal apanage.A plantation of thiskind is spoken of as an adequate provision for a younger branch of theroyal famil:r. It seems by the description a happy country. AU thosewho have visited itconside~ itas s\lch.This tree affords here aIl thatis nècessary for thelife of man . or beast, save one. Ofwater Nature.has.heen somewhat scanty, as may be supposed by the.latitude and loqalface.The date approaches the nearest of any thing we know to whatthe ancients have bequeathed to us of the lotus.The people ofTafiletlive, in fortified towns ofabout four hundred families in each, on dates,and the milk of their camels. Deer and ostriches are numerous. Thecountry is a flat plain; what is not under trees is bare sand. Little cornis grown comparatively, and what 1S produced is sown by the bank ofaswe.1ling riv~r.was nrst plant~.d.Such was the situation when the germ of agricultureMan scattered the grain on the mud left by the recedingeurrent, and it grewl rrhe resultstimulated to greater efforts; andplentiful harvests are now reaped almost in the teeth of Nature, extortedfrom her most unpromising mot>ds.inte.nse, and. it never rains.The heat of the c1imate i8Such a climate combined with such a soil,constitutes a situation adapted aJone to the palm-tree, the came], andthe ostrich.But man, às lord of the creation, adapts himself to, aU.Sueh'was thep,imary ordination.one of the first class of m~gnitude,of the old world.The river mentioned isdescribed asIts name implies