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GOLBERRY’S TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
«« Men capable of bearing arms 121452 
Moses. ke O82 
Fountaims . -.- +> +: * 530 
Baths, supplied by an aqneduct 
* from the mountains three miles 
distant from the city 249 
Flouses large and small 137010 
Inns, or places of refreshment 507 
Shops (exclusive of bake-houses) 110g6 
Mills for grinding com. ses 89 
Gake-honses . . - + + + 1405 
Roap-boilers. - 2 ss te 19 
Tan-yards, employing upwards of 
4000 men and beys in each : 14 
Linen bleachers ~ St) ea 82 
Dyersshops’ . . - se +: 80 
‘Palbs or attornics offices . . . 245 
Pointers shops (the principal part of 
whom died of the plague, whose 
loss is much deplored) . + «, sco 
The imperial gardens are described 
as equalling whatever has been deline- 
ated by poets; they are laid out in the 
European style by a gardener from 
Lisbon. This isa vague word, and we 
know not what is meant by European, 
whether English, French, Dutch, or 
Portugueze. They abound with foun- 
tains and cascades, and’ the collected 
waters form a large river, which runs 
intothe Sabu, Eolian lyres are placed 
upon the roras, the water wheels which 
supply the reservoir. Where these weras 
are common, their creaking is enume- 
rated by the nation as one ot their rural 
delights; though to an English ear, 
unused to the association of pleasure 
with whatever is connected With water 
and coolness, the sound is very irksome ; 
indeed, We cannot conceive how an 
KEolian harp could be heard near one, 
We are ever more disposed to err from 
credulity than from suspicion, yet we 
confess that the following passage has 
staggered our faith in the traveller’s 
veracity: 
‘I took my usual walk on the terrace, 
haying imy pockets filled with fruit, ‘The 
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ladies soon gathered round me, and after I 
had presented them with fruit, they asked 
me to give them handkerchiefs to put round 
their heads: but as [had none about me, I 
promised to bring some on the follow- 
Ing evening. They have no idea of modestv, 
and thea dancing and romping absolutely 
put me to the blush ; they are uncommonly 
fond of intrigues, particularly with Chris- 
tians, as I have been informed; they imagine - 
there is something very curious about a 
Christian. which he always endeavours to 
conceal from them.” 
If all other travellers are to be trusted» 
Mr, Curtis would never have returned 
to boast of his imprudence. 
Fez is called the holy city, because 
Mohammed is said to have resided there; 
by a fiction in the same catholic spirit, 
he was once said to have been born at 
Cordova, The present emperor has 
erected a building over the grave of a 
saint, who vies in miracles with any in 
the martyrology: he heals all diseases; 
and when Mr. Curtis expressed his won- 
der to the panegyrist of the wonder- 
worker, that so many miserable objects 
were to be seen in the streets, though 
his chapel was always full, he was told, 
“there cannot be room for all.” So 
suspicious is the emperor, that he would 
net take a dose of salts until he had 
seen its effects on another person. His 
taster’s place must be something more 
than a sinecure. This precaution was 
carried farther in Egypt; when Bruce 
prescribed for a bey, the wretched pati- 
ent required him to exhibit the operation 
of the medicine on himself first. 
Mr. Curtis was unfortunate enough 
to be taken prisoner on his passage to 
Gibraltar, and stripped of all he brought 
rom Barbary. The little volume is 
eked out by observations on the gum 
trade of Senegal, which is transcribed 
from Golberry’s Travels {see the- next 
article) merely to swell the book, 
the Years 1785, 1786, and 1787 
in the We tern Countries of this Continent, comprized between Cape Blanco of Barbary, 
20° 47’, and Cape Palmas, 4° 30', North Latitude. 
Embellished with a General Map 
of Africa, corrected from the mot authentic Oi servations and Discoveries ; together with 
Plans, Views, Sc. Fc. By SirvesteEr Meinrad Xavier GOLBERRY, 
12mo. 2 vols. 360 pages each. 
by William Mudford. 
AT the peace of 1785 the French 
were once again the acknowledged mas- 
ters of their ancient possession, the Sc- 
negal; and every facility appeared to 
have been afforded them of pencirating 
into the interior, and of being the first 
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to explore the unknown regions of 
Africa. They were sole masters of cne 
of the largest of its rivers, the Bence 5 
had an establishment at Galam, to which 
great power might be given; and an 
extensive influence, by a i according 
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