apes' hill. 
gradually worse, till the climax is reached in the ascent of a 
steep hill where the brushwood tears the load off the mules, 
and with the stones and rocks nearly renders progress impos- 
sible. Once, however, at the top, a fair enough road is found 
leading to the village of Beut, situated in a sort of plateau at 
an elevation of about 1000 feet, separated from Jebel Moosa 
by a deep valley, a high range of rocks, and another shallow 
valley. 
About here nothing, ornithologically speaking, is to be 
seen (excepting a few Choughs) that is not to be met with 
elsewhere. We found an Eagle nesting on the north face of 
the range south of Jebel Moosa : the nest was in a most 
difficult position to get at ; and not being able to reach any 
place near enough from which to shoot the Eagle, we left 
the eggs as worthless, because unable to identify the bird : 
however I have little doubt that it was the Golden Eagle. 
We saw some apes about the rocks ; they were rather wild, 
and lost no time in making their way to the top. 
The view from this sierra (Apes^ Hill of the English, Jebel 
Moosa of the Moors, Sierra Bullones of the Spaniards, Abyla 
of the ancients) is magnificent, and baffles description, well 
repapng all the trouble and difficulties of the ascent. 
To the south beyond Tetuan lie, half hidden in blue mist, 
the snow-streaked mountains of the Atlas, stretching far away 
out of sight, the summit of one vast snowy pile rather to the 
south-east appearing to be as high, and looking quite as 
white, as the Sierra Nevada, near Granada, which is also 
distinctly visible to the north-east ; but this African snowy 
range seems further off. Below to the east, stretched out as 
if on a ground-plan close to your feet, is Ceuta, with its 
detestably ugly white-washed Spanish forts and towers, be- 
tween which and the Tetuan river looms the gloomy head- 
land of Cape Negro. Westward of this are range after range 
of comparatively low dark hills, rolling away towards Tangier 
and Cape Spartel, here and there one or two being topped 
with a few crags and rocks. Ear to the west is the Atlantic, 
leading to the deep-blue Straits, looking, as they separate 
Europe and Africa, like some mountain-lake. 
