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Sultan or a Grovernor indulges in mere gratuitous acts of 

 cruelty against his humbler subjects, that we hear of a 

 general revolt. Oppression is, after all, less intolerable 

 than anarchy ; and at that very time most men would have 

 chosen to live in Marocco rather than in Sicily. 



Among other objects of interest Sir J. D. Hay showed 

 us a coloured view of the Great Atlas range, as seen from 

 the neighbourhood of the city of Marocco, executed at 

 the time of his father's mission to that city in 1829, and 

 this naturally engaged our special attention.' The most 

 singular point in the structure of the mountains was a 

 very long range of what were represented as precipitous 

 rocks of seemingly uniform height and structure, that 

 appeared to rise abruptly from the plain, and to form an 

 almost continuous outer wall or rampart on. the north side 

 of the chain. We were also shown a copy of Hollar's ^ 

 rare engraving, representing Tangier at the period of the 

 English occupation, with the soldiers of Charles II., in 

 their cumbrous uniforms, strutting on the mole. 



Those who have read his interesting and lively little 

 work, ' Morocco and the Moors,' wUl not be surprised that 

 so keen a sportsman and close an observer of the habits of 

 wild animals as our host should have many curious anec- 

 dotes to tell ; but we were not prepared to hear that less 

 than twenty-five years before a lion had been killed close 

 to the spot where his beautiful villa now stands. At the 



' A copy of this view is given in the frontispiece. 



' Wentzel Hollar (or Hollard), a native of Prague, was sent to Tan- 

 gier in 1669 by the king to take views of the town and its fortifications, 

 which he afterwards engraved. Being one of the most distinguished 

 engravers of the time, he settled in England, and executed some 2,400 

 prints, chiefly etchings, which are remarkable for their spirit, freedom, 

 lightness, and finish. Hollar was one of the most conscientious of 

 men; he worked for the booksellers at the rate of 4d. an hour, and 

 always with an hour-glass on his table, which he invariably laid on its 

 side, to prevent the sand from running, when not actually at work with 

 his pencil or graving tool, and even when conversing on his business 

 with his employers. He is said to have died in great poverty, with an 

 execution in his house and a prison in prospect. 



