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48 TRAV.ELS IN AFRICA.The castle had shortly previous to our arrivaI here been much Înjuredby the blowing-up of the m~gazine. As a Moorish fortress, it isby the closeness of the embrazures more picturesque than formidable.The Swedish .embassy, yet here, performed its journey with much ease.takingtw'Cnty-two days to go yver what the British did in eighteen. Itis delayed here by~the ves'sel, which conveyed it to Mogodor, yet remainingbeating up the coastagaitlst the steady north breeze.TheSultan had presented the Swedish amhassado,r with an iu(]itferent horseand tw.o :very inditferent travelling companions-ostriches: ..~ Ieg ofoneof them:was broken in forcing upon the animal the n.ecessity of COfilmittingitself to an .element new to it, at the ferry of Bulaghuan.It must be indeed a barren mind which could avoid treasuring up, ina journey such as is here related, ample matter for reBectionduring tl.~eresidue oflife.The ha4"vcst of travcUingdoes not ripen inimediately.Very few indeed are abJe at once to say t1'\ey have made the most ofwhat theyhaveseen.Theproofs whieh the observer's eye daily meetswith, how much matte, of an obvious nature too lulsesçaped otll,ertrav.ellers, nlust make him d.iffident.In reviewing the tract of theearth reçently passed over, it is obviousthat its constitution,howevcr divt~rsified,is cutirely alluvial. The countryeastward from MogQdor to lVIorocco is evidently a substratum;one, at lea:!t~ having been washed away, as appears by the proof patehesheretofore described as now extant, to c1ec1areto the fact.The wholetract is covered with reduced dilapidation, either horn-stone~ trapp, orbasaIt.This part of the Great Plain from the Atlantic to the sea hasa rapid descent, as is ascertained by the directness of the courses of therivers, as weU as their rapidity.North of the stony part to Bulaghuan,the argillaceous tract has its ~ndulatedform hy the wash ofwaters, andis diversified 80 into valleys: but the elevationsall preSCl!t.,olle leve!.